Full Idea
If we imagine a world like ours except that, while there are atoms arranged statuewise in that world, there are no statues, ...no amount of looking around could distinguish that imagined world from ours.
Gist of Idea
There is no visible difference between statues, and atoms arranged statuewise
Source
Trenton Merricks (Objects and Persons [2003], §2.V)
Book Reference
Merricks,Trenton: 'Objects and Persons' [OUP 2003], p.55
A Reaction
This is one of his arguments for ontological eliminativism about physical objects. If we accept the argument, it will wreak havoc with our entire ontology, and we will end up anti-realists. I say you have to see statues - you just can't miss them.