Overwrite report when copy/clone via powershell or API?

I am setting up an ops process for elevating reports and I would like to use PowerShell to automate some of the steps, however I have found that the Copy/Clone functions of the Powershell and API seem to duplicate the report instead of overwriting when copying between workspaces. The dataset can be ignored or overwritten but the report seems to always duplicate. Has anyone successfully copied a report between workspaces without duplicating? I am hesitant to delete the original report before copy as I think that will break Dashboards and permissions?

The theory is that we will have three workspaces, OpsGroup1_Dev, OpsGroup1_Test, and OpsGroup1 where we push the Dev report either via the Desktop or PowerShell, then copy the report to Test/Prod as park of an elevation (like OctoDeploy or similar).