[Q] Apply a class to an object onStage without linkage?

I have a series of movieClip extension classes that are currently being applied via linkage in the library. I’m trying to find a way to loop the stage at compile and apply the classes to objects with specific instance names instead.

As it is now, if someone duplicates the library instance of a clip on the stage (which happens a lot), it loses the linkage. I could memo the entire dev team and tell them to re-apply the linkage anytime they dupe a clip, but I’d really rather not ask that of everyone…

After exhaustive searching, I’m still coming up with nothing for an actual AS2 solution to this. The only workaround I’m even finding is to create a variable reference to the clip in the class constructor, but I do not want that…

Anyone have any suggestions?