Cloning a reference type

Consider the following

I have an Html Template object

   class HtmlTemplateModel
    {
       public HTML Html {get;set;}
       //..etc
    }

and an Html Editor

class HtmlEditorViewModel
{
   private HtmlTemplateModel htmlTemplateModel;
   public HtmlEditor(HtmlTemplateModel htmlTemplateModel)
   {
      this.htmlTemplateModel = htmlTemplateModel;
   }
}

This way the TemplateEditor instance applies the changes to the original template since its a reference type, but i dont want to modify its value so i made a new constructor that takes an HtmlTemplateModel and creates a new HtmlTemplateModel.

• is this the best way to clone reference type in .NET?
• and is there a shortcut so that i don't have to create another constructor to clone the object?