Want to sync iPhone4s contacts to a different iCloud account

The current iPhone4s has about 500 contacts and is being synced to xyz-at-icloud.com
Not sure who changed the email account but it had to be synced to abc-at-gmail.com iCloud account
Standard problem - unable to recover password of xyz-at-icloud.com but we have the password for abc-at-gmail.com
Question: On the iPhone4s if we change the iCloud account from xyz-at-icloud.com to abc-at-gmail.com will the 500 Contacts on iPhone4s get backedup on abc-at-gmail.com iCloud account?
I am afraid if I change the email id the accounts on iPhone4s may get deleted and it may download the contacts from abc-at-gmail.com iCloud account. We don't want that to happen, can't afford to lose the 500 accounts
I do understand if the contacts of iPhone4s get copied to abc-at-gmail.com iCloud account there could be duplicates, that's ok, will manually delete the duplicates
Any help appreciated

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