Animating a photographic 'object' in a clip

Here's the scene: a simple shot of a starfish on a beach shot from above.
Question: is it possible, using Motion 4, to animate the starfish so that it uses it's legs to walk?, say make an exit stage left?
I have a shot of the starfish on the beach, and a shot of the beach without the starfish.
I'm quite new to Final Cut Studio and Motion 4 so I'm not sure if it's possible to do this. I couldn't find the solution in the Motion 4 Apple Pro Training Series book I bought.
Is it possible? If so, does anyone know of a resource that could help me work it through?
Thanks guys.

You could isolate the starfish with a mask and put the shot without the starfish beneath it below, and have the starfish move/rotate off the screen - but the legs wouldn't bend at all, no way AFAIK to do that in Motion - would require something like After Effect's Puppet Tool (been coming up a lot lately, hasn't it?)

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