Add support for explicit Shallow Cloning #2117
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Add support for Shallow Cloning
Description
The current behaviour of Mapperly when mapping between same types is either to return the original instance, or to perform a deep clone of the entire object graph.
Another use case lies in the middle of those two solutions: Shallow Cloning.
Shallow cloning an object allows a user to clone an object at the first level, while keeping all the references to other reference types unchanged. If a user needs some references to be handled differently, they can still use a user mapping on those specific properties.
This feature also aligns to the default behaviour of Automapper, and this could help users to more easily migrate from Automapper to Mapperly.
Fixes #2113
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