How to control a plot copied to new figure

This is my first question ever :

Ive copied my axes from my GUI using

h=figure;
copyobj(handles.plot_crossection,h)

This opens up a new figure window, and plots the old plot i had, but this also copies the position of the handle into the new figure, and now it dosnt resize automatically. (also i would actually like to copy two handles and to have both as if i plotted them directly to the new figure so they resize rescale and position naturally)

Thank you!