diff --git a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/http/response.py b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/http/response.py
index ca79512a6..b91d64186 100644
--- a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/http/response.py
+++ b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/http/response.py
@@ -80,8 +80,8 @@ class Response(object) :
                            kw.get('url', self.url),
                            original_url=kw.get('original_url', self.original_url),
                            headers=kw.get('headers', sameheaders()),
-                           status=kw.get('status', self.status),
-                           body=kw.get('body', samebody()))
+                           status=kw.get('status', self.status))
+        newresp.body = kw.get('body', samebody())
         return newresp
 
     def to_string(self):