Hi Jeff thanks for posting in the Lucidchart Community! Just to make sure I understand your question: Do you want to create multiple shapes by dragging a shape from the shape library once? If so this is currently not possible in Lucidchart. However we're always looking for ways to improve Lucidchart and your feedback is the best way for us to do that. Would you mind adding your idea to our feature request form? Ideas submitted to this form are passed on to the product development team for their consideration.

Copying and pasting as described by you is indeed currently the recommended workaround. Apologies for any inconvenience caused!