diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/core/ConcreteComponentDescriptor.h b/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/core/ConcreteComponentDescriptor.h
index 653f7700efa..9e42b9b524a 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/core/ConcreteComponentDescriptor.h
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/core/ConcreteComponentDescriptor.h
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ class ConcreteComponentDescriptor : public ComponentDescriptor {
       const ShadowNode& sourceShadowNode,
       const ShadowNodeFragment& fragment) const override {
     auto shadowNode = std::make_shared<ShadowNodeT>(sourceShadowNode, fragment);
+    sourceShadowNode.transferRuntimeShadowNodeReference(shadowNode, fragment);
 
     adopt(*shadowNode);
     return shadowNode;
diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/uimanager/UIManager.cpp b/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/uimanager/UIManager.cpp
index f3b61507c5c..de2bf9c1fa3 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/uimanager/UIManager.cpp
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/uimanager/UIManager.cpp
@@ -153,6 +153,7 @@ std::shared_ptr<ShadowNode> UIManager::cloneNode(
       {
           .props = props,
           .children = children,
+          .runtimeShadowNodeReference = false,
       });
 
   return clonedShadowNode;