Fair enough, though I would think that when applying resizable to the cloned element $(this.handles[i]) arrays should be redeclared in _create and contain the targeted element (as I'm only trying to copy the DOM structure, neither events, nor the data should be kept from old clone).
Also - even when (true, true) cloning, resize stops working (probably due to the same reasons, in multiple places, which is expected), but that's not what I'm after. On the other hand - this is of no hinderance, and I can modify my code to do as you're saying.
Cheers!