in reply to help with references

"The Dumper output i'm trying to achieve is..":
Has rightly pointed out by moritz, use Storable's freeze and thaw or dclone like so:

... use Storable qw(thaw freeze); ... my $frozen = freeze \@a; for my $i ( 1 .. 2 ) { $h{"$i"} = thaw $frozen; } ...
OR using dclone, in a single step
... use Storable qw(dclone); ... for my $i ( 1 .. 2 ) { $h{"$i"} = dclone \@a; } ...
The Dumper output will be what you are looking for.
Hope this helps

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