I've taken a look at this and think it's intentional and fairly clear:

   - GTK+ and gtkmm both refer to the slot as "a slot that creates
   widgets". i.e. creates, for the FlowBox's consumption. Not a slot that
   returns a reference to a widget that already existed for some other purpose.
   - GtkFlowBox does   gtk_flow_box_forall (GTK_CONTAINER (box), FALSE,
   (GtkCallback) gtk_widget_destroy, NULL);

So, I think your original conclusion, that the widgets must always be
rebuilt, was correct.

As for the question about copying them, I'm afraid that can't work, as far
as I know; relatively few GObjects maintain all their state as properties,
often keeping essential info in private structs, so unless the C class
provides a copy/clone method, that can't be done. Not that I think it'd
help much here anyway - you'd just be copying instead of
deleting/recreating.

Perhaps you can instead build all the FlowBoxes, one for each model, then
just show the one that's currently relevant. e.g. using Gtk::Stack
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