Change Filter Shallow Copies to Deep Copies #175
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@ilumsden made a good catch in #173, that filter copies should be deep. This PR changes
filter_metadataandfilter_statsshallow copies to be deep copies. This is because we expect the returned Thicket from a filter to be a separate Thicket object.Example of changing the filtered Thicket:



Shallow Copy - both objects change
Deep Copy - only
thchangesFor the sake of a unit test it is sufficient to check that a given filtered Thicket component
is notthe same object as the component in the original Thicket.