As long as you are standing there to copy, correct?
Because they won't have a 9th level slot after YOU cast it from wish.
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They only need a level 7 slot for simulacrum.
Day 1 you create a simulacrum via wish or simulacrum. You rest and get your spells back. You call your clone disposable 1.
Day 2 Disposable 1 clones you with all your spells back creating alpha 1,
Day 3 Alpha 1 clones you twice creating Alpha 3 and 4,
Day 4 alpha 3 and 4 clone you twice creating alpha 5-8,
Day 5 Alpha 5 to 8 clone you twice creating Alpha 9-16
Day 6 Alpha 9-16 clone you twice creating Alpha 17-32.
Day 7 64
Day 8 128
Day 9 256
Day 10 512
Day 11 1024
Day 12 2048
Day 13 4096
By day 6 you can have 32 wish spells available for the cost of 48 000 gp. By day 13 you can have 4096 although realistically you might run low on money after day 10.
What they should have done was have a line saying each being can only have 1 simulacrum at a time or you can only clone yourself and the clone has 50% of your levels (rounded down).
Can Wish create money? In previous editions IIRC you could create 25k or so with it.
Each clone even after they reproduce still has a level 8 spell slot, all of their level 1-6 spells and can spam 4d10 firebolts or whatever cantrip.
At level 20 the pattern is.
1
3
9
27
81
243
729 etc
If you cast simulacrum in the level 8 slot as well the level 20 pattern is now level 17 and the level 20 pattern is now.
1
4
16
64
512
2048
How much cash do you have and how many wish spells do you want? Send your clones out to raid low level dungeons, the caves of Chaos has around 40kgp in it.