Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-3568954-20170106121957/@comment-25122992-20170106144853

Technically, I don't see a lot of sense for Orochimaru to do something like this. Firstly, there's no guarantee that a cloned body as a vessel for a deceased soul would stay an actual human body and not become the zombi body as all the Edo-bodies do. And even if Orochimaru achieved that, it'd eliminate the main advantages of the Edo-body (limitless chakra and body regeneration) without getting any new advantages instead. Basically, it's just a replication of Rinne Tensei without user's death drawback. Secondly, if Orochimaru can already clone some poweful shinobi via their DNA, he'll have no need to apply Edo Tensei to them in the first place - as their clones, they'd already have the same abilities as the original. They just wouldn't have the original's memories, but that's not a great loss.