Function Doesnt Clone Part And Position Randomly?

what this script is made to do is it there's a function that sets a random position for a part and gets the part name, then it clones the part, then starts setting the clone value / variable to a clone of the previous clone and sets the position to random it repeats that 20 times before stopping, but it doesn't work, for some reason it only changes the position for the current part (not a clone) if anyone has some information on how to fix it or (even better) an actual working script, i would greatly appreciate it

local function random(position, who)
	for _, child in ipairs(script.Parent.poggy:GetChildren()) do
		if child.Name == who then
			child.Position = position
		end
	end
end

local area = 354
local baseplate_position=Vector3.new(177.753, 861.364, -402.773)

while true do
	local clone = script.Parent.poggy.Smiler:Clone()
	random(Vector3.new(math.random(-area/2,area/2),1,math.random(-area/2,area/2))+baseplate_position, clone.Name)
	for i = 1, 20 do
		clone = clone:Clone()
		random(Vector3.new(math.random(-area/2,area/2),1,math.random(-area/2,area/2))+baseplate_position, clone.Name)
		end
	break
end