I have just started using Construct 2. What a fantastic piece of software.
Congratulations Ashley, you really have done an amazing job!
I work as a User Experience professional and have been looking to move into gaming. From my initial use, Construct 2 seems to be exactly what I need.
Back on topic: I agree that this would be a nice feature. In fact, this was the behaviour I expected when I cloned the text object. I had one text instance placed on another to create a dropshadow effect (wrong method?) and had to do that again each time.