Why do you need pointers in this situation?

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Learning C++: polymorphism and slicing

This is building off a question I asked before. The classes look like this:

class Enemy
{
    public:
        void sayHere()
        {
            cout<<"Here"<<endl;
        }
        virtual void attack()
        {
        }
};

class Monster: public Enemy
{

    public:
        void attack()
        {
            cout<<"RAWR"<<endl;
        }

};
class Ninja: public Enemy
{

    public:
        void attack()
        {

            cout<<"Hiya!"<<endl;
        }
};

I am new to C++ and I'm confused as to why this will only work with pointers (both Ninja and monster are derived from Enemy):

int main()
{
    Ninja ninja;
    Monster monster;

    Enemy *enemies[2];

    enemies[0] = &monster;
    enemies[1] = &ninja;

    for (int i = 0; i < 2; i++)
    {
        enemies[i]->attack();
    }

    return 0;
}

Why can't I instead do this?:

int main()
{
    Ninja ninja;
    Monster monster;

    Enemy enemies[2];

    enemies[0] = monster;
    enemies[1] = ninja;

    for (int i = 0; i < 2; i++)
    {
        enemies[i].attack();
    }

    return 0;
}