Cp4: Paste identical background as separate library object

I need to paste an identical image as the background to several slides.
It's important that the background image for each slide is a separate library object so I can do further edits without affecting the other slides.
The first time I paste all is wll. However, from then on Cp somehow recognises that it's the same content and instead reuses the background image from the first time I pasted.
I'm sure someone spent a lot of time coding it to work that way. But I don't want it to!
Is there any way of forcing the paste to create a new library object, or alternatively to take existing slides and de-link their backgrounds?
Thank you

Thank you niamhsile
I figured out that the easiest way to create the new slides was to CTRL-SHIFT-J to create a blank new slide, paste as image rather than as background, then CTRL-M to merge the image into the background.
I haven't figured out a way to delink existing slides though.

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