How do I get Finder to show thumbnail icons of symlinks to images?

For some reason, even when I have icon preview enabled, instead of showing the thumbnail of the image, it shows a generic JPG icon with an arrow. This is really frustrating because I need to be able top see thumbnails of all my images at once, so I can quickly select files for acting on. And just to be clear, all the images in the directory are symlinks to the original images. I can't browse by the original images because I am using symlinks for organizational reasons.

I am porting an image matching program from windows, which has a similar need; to show images which are similar to eachother via symlink or windows shortcut.
The data to show a preview of a linked image is readily available to the operating system.
There should be absolutely no need for a 3rd party app.
It works seamlessly and effortlessly under windows.
It is a ridiculous shortcoming by Apple that this functionality is not available.
(also, @barney, an alias is not the same as a symlink.)

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