diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/cql3/statements/SelectStatement.java b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/cql3/statements/SelectStatement.java
index a4a5553d69..b454ece036 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/cql3/statements/SelectStatement.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/cql3/statements/SelectStatement.java
@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ public class SelectStatement implements CQLStatement, MeasurableForPreparedCache
             // We should not share the slice filter amongst the commands (hence the cloneShallow), due to
             // SliceQueryFilter not being immutable due to its columnCounter used by the lastCounted() method
             // (this is fairly ugly and we should change that but that's probably not a tiny refactor to do that cleanly)
-            commands.add(ReadCommand.create(keyspace(), key, columnFamily(), now, filter.cloneShallow()));
+            commands.add(ReadCommand.create(keyspace(), ByteBufferUtil.clone(key), columnFamily(), now, filter.cloneShallow()));
         }
 
         return commands;