Resizing objects with a clipping mask around them?

How do I resize an object (or group of objects) with a clipping mask around it? While normally I could just enter the dimensions into the Transform boxes for width/height, what that does is resize the outermost area(the clipping mask area) to those dimensions. But what I want to resize is the visible object within the clipping mask-- how do I do this quickly?
It's for a set of objects I'll have to resize frequently...

Nope... it scales the clipping mask itself.
The objects I'm trying to scale are buttons, I've got the various elements (shadows/highlights, etc) in a group, and that group includes the clipping mask. I select the whole group, click the clipping mask, select edit contents, and the button remains unchanged while the clipping mask gets scaled.
(The clipping mask is there as a workaround to create an innershadow effect, since PS has one and Illustrator doesn't.)

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