If they'd left you alone as a cat,you would have been happy.
Alas a half century after you'd been transformed into
a statue the reptilian dragonlike race of aliens known as the
Dracaene made first contact with prewar Earth with what turned out to be the second generation of Dracaene faster than light spaceships .
So naturally that dragon statue got all the attention.
Since the thirteen of yo statue people had once been a companion
art work sitting on a public square above a subway station,the
City decided it would be nice if there were 12 other dragons to
go with the Dragon Statue.
Maybe the 12 of you were indestructible but you were
not beyond being reshaped.
The City artist tasked with the re-moulding examined
the materials all 13 of you were made of and discovered you were made of pyroconcrete,a material that could be reshaped
under quite a bit of heat in a carbon arc furnace.
So within five years of the arrival of the Dracaene ship
you were now reshaped into the form of a much bigger
dragon then you'd been as a cat.
Since the dracaena were a silicon based lifeform,more into fiery
displays then aquatic ones,you and the others were now feeling
a oxy-acetylene torches mixture of gases going up your guts
and a solar igniter in your dragon maw caused you to breath
fire rather then water now.
The Dracaene were pleased with the arrangement of dragon statues and over the next decade you and the others watched
as the aliens built their first Embassy and Trade Centre
in front of the 13 of you.
The annoying thing was that although you got to see the reptilian aliens daily,and their futuristic alien looking building,
you really wanted a Dracaene star ship to wander in your field of view....