 The objection from grounding is not so much an objection to the constitution view, but an objection designed to undermine a principle reason for adopting it. A principle reason for adopting the constitution view is that it seems to allow, for example, the statue and the piece of clay to have different properties. In particular, it seems to allow them to have different modal properties such as being squashable. Since constitution, unlike identity, does not conform to the indiscernibility of identicals, the clay can be squashable even if the statue is not.