diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/components/view/YogaLayoutableShadowNode.cpp b/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/components/view/YogaLayoutableShadowNode.cpp
index cb94ab0bed19c9..1aa2de1d98e5d5 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/components/view/YogaLayoutableShadowNode.cpp
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/components/view/YogaLayoutableShadowNode.cpp
@@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ void YogaLayoutableShadowNode::updateYogaChildren() {
 void YogaLayoutableShadowNode::updateYogaProps() {
   ensureUnsealed();
 
-  auto props = static_cast<const YogaStylableProps&>(*props_);
+  auto& props = static_cast<const YogaStylableProps&>(*props_);
   auto styleResult = applyAliasedProps(props.yogaStyle, props);
 
   // Resetting `dirty` flag only if `yogaStyle` portion of `Props` was changed.
diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/core/ConcreteShadowNode.h b/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/core/ConcreteShadowNode.h
index e91c757d8d77e0..14c3e9ac481833 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/core/ConcreteShadowNode.h
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/core/ConcreteShadowNode.h
@@ -76,7 +76,8 @@ class ConcreteShadowNode : public BaseShadowNodeT {
       const Props::Shared& baseProps = nullptr) {
     return std::make_shared<PropsT>(
         context,
-        baseProps ? static_cast<const PropsT&>(*baseProps) : PropsT(),
+        baseProps ? static_cast<const PropsT&>(*baseProps)
+                  : *defaultSharedProps(),
         rawProps);
   }
 
diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/core/Props.h b/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/core/Props.h
index 6b25617d2d362f..b17a54541ee27b 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/core/Props.h
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/core/Props.h
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ class Props : public virtual Sealable, public virtual DebugStringConvertible {
       const RawProps& rawProps);
   virtual ~Props() = default;
 
+  Props(const Props& other) = delete;
+  Props& operator=(const Props& other) = delete;
+
   /**
    * Set a prop value via iteration (see enableIterator above).
    * If setProp is defined for a particular props struct, it /must/
diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/uimanager/PointerEventsProcessor.cpp b/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/uimanager/PointerEventsProcessor.cpp
index d1f48491f43dee..cdb83add952f2a 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/uimanager/PointerEventsProcessor.cpp
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/uimanager/PointerEventsProcessor.cpp
@@ -33,9 +33,7 @@ static bool isViewListeningToEvents(
     const ShadowNode& shadowNode,
     std::initializer_list<ViewEvents::Offset> eventTypes) {
   if (shadowNode.getTraits().check(ShadowNodeTraits::Trait::ViewKind)) {
-    auto props = shadowNode.getProps();
-    auto viewProps = static_cast<const ViewProps&>(*props);
-
+    auto& viewProps = static_cast<const ViewProps&>(*shadowNode.getProps());
     for (const ViewEvents::Offset eventType : eventTypes) {
       if (viewProps.events[eventType]) {
         return true;