Full Idea
The piece of clay and the statue are 'objects' - that is to say, they can be designated with proper names, and the logic we ordinarily use will still apply.
Gist of Idea
Clay and statue are two objects, which can be named and reasoned about
Source
Allan Gibbard (Contingent Identity [1975], I)
Book Reference
-: 'Journal of Symbolic Logic' [-], p.190
A Reaction
An interesting indication of the way that 'object' is used in modern analytic philosophy, which may not be the way that it is used in ordinary English. The number 'seven', for example, seems to be an object by this criterion.