Full Idea
The most prominent objection to contingent identity (as in the case of the statue and its clay) is that it violates Leibniz's Law.
Gist of Idea
Claims on contingent identity seem to violate Leibniz's Law
Source
Allan Gibbard (Contingent Identity [1975], V)
Book Reference
-: 'Journal of Symbolic Logic' [-], p.200
A Reaction
Depends what you mean by a property. The trickiest one would be that the statue has (right now) a disposition to be worth a lot, but the clay doesn't. But I don't think that is really a property of the statue. Properties are a muddle.
Related Idea
Idea 8650 Things are the same if one can be substituted for the other without loss of truth [Leibniz]