Clay Feet — Kristine Kathryn Rusch

After a decade of trying to get a statue of Mercury for her museum's antiquities department, Harper finally succeeds. But then the statue arrives -- broken -- and a spectacular forgery. Her boss -- impressed -- calls the statue the ultimate forgery.

Harper wonders if she, too, should appreciate the forgery -- until the statue starts talking.

“‘Clay Feet' is…[filled with] clever dialogue and interesting questions about the intersection of the classical world with the modern.”
-- The Good, the Bad, and the Unread