How to copy a smart object transform in Photoshop

Hello!
Smart objects in photoshop is realy powerfull tool, i use it in many different ways and create complicated web graphic. But many times i need to do one thing with them and always fail:
If i have several different smart objects, and I do DIFFERENT perspective transform to them (it means scaling distortion rotation etc)
how can i apply the *same* transform that has one of my objects to another one smart objet that yet has no transformation (or it has some alrady dosn't matter)?
In other words how can i copy the transformation in some way (as you might copy a layer style and apply the same one to a different layer)
Is there any way? or i shoud look to scripting to do that?
Is there real photoshop guru who knows how to do that?
thanks in advance

Thank you!
Yes i know about this workaround but unfortunatly there will be immediatly other question raised :
if i do this (replace content of my new smart object created by copying from original) then this new smart object will be disconnected from any other smart object, and there is no way how to restore this connection betwen smart objects after content replace operation. Or there is?
This is important for me cause in my work i have a lot of smart objects with different transformations but conneted to one source data object.
So unfortunatly for me but this idea is not even workaround for my workflow? It's so pity

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