copy paste a cat face

Hello,

I am trying to copy and paste a cat face once I've used the clipping mask technique.

Once I am done pasting the Cat face it wont copy just the part that has been clipped,

it copies the whole entire selection I made.

check the picture attached

and see how the image is clipped and the top layer is the bad result.

So how can I copy clipped images without the hidden part of the image?