Can I add images assigned to one product to a new product I'm creating with an API

[Luftwalk]

Hey,

what I'm trying to do when creating a new product with an API is something like this:

$image = (
[id] => 40305803559107 -- ID of the already existing image
[position] => 2

)

$product($shopifyID)->Image($image)->post()

To clarify - $shopifyID is the ID of the newly created product

Would the above quasi code work? So far I've been having issues with it but not sure if it's because you can't specify through ID which existing image to take or not.

If this isn't an option...what would be the quickest, least intensive way of adding already existing images to a new product?

Thanks for the help