John,

>How can I make an independant copy of Object1?

You can't. And usually you can't rely on a copy behaving the exact same way when you consider the code behind the object: _access, _assign methods, conditional Init() code or issues like hidden/private scoped properties, internal subobjects. All these things greatly impact the ability to copy an object.

Honestly in all the time I've been working with VFP I've never had to copy an object outside the scope of an academic exercise. What exactly are you wanting to accomplish with a copy of an object?

If you have very simplistic objects you can propogate the property values from one object to another by using amembers() to get the names of the properties, and getpem() to determine if the property is writeable and then addproperty() to assign the property value to the copy.