how to pass array by value and not by reference?

so I have been trying to solve an edabit question in Java.

I have a pretty good idea, though it doesn't work because the array is being passed by reference and not by value.

How can I fix it?

public class ShuffleCount {

    public static int shuffleCount(int cardNum){
        int[] arrayShuffle = new int[cardNum];
        for (int i=0; i < cardNum; i++){
            arrayShuffle[i] = i+1;
        }
        return shuffleCount(arrayShuffle, arrayShuffle, arrayShuffle, 0);
    }

    private static int shuffleCount(int[] firstOrder, int[] currOrder, int[] prevOrder, int shuffleCounter){
        for (int i=0; i<firstOrder.length/2; i++){
            currOrder[i*2] = prevOrder[i];
            currOrder[i+1] = prevOrder[firstOrder.length/2 + i];
        }

        if(firstOrder == currOrder)
            return shuffleCounter;

        prevOrder = currOrder;

        return shuffleCount(firstOrder, currOrder,prevOrder, shuffleCounter + 1);
    }

}

The first function creates an array from 1 to the insert number.

Then passes it to the oder which solves the question using recursion. But the reference is passed and not the value.

How can it be solved?