 However, the view that composites are identical to their parts is highly controversial. One common objection is that the identity relation simply isn’t the sort of relation that can hold between a single thing and many things. Another common objection is that ordinary objects have different persistence conditions from their parts. For instance, the atoms arranged statuewise, unlike the statue, will still exist if the statue disintegrates and the atoms disperse. It would then seem to follow by Leibniz’s Law that the atoms are not identical to the  statue.[66] 