How to get a class function by valor.

Hello all and ty for your time I'm pretty newbie at programming and ive an issue i dont know how to fix:

Ive this class:

Code (CSharp):

1. public class WeaponController : MonoBehaviour
2. {
3.  
4.     public int[] stats = new int[8];
5.  
6.     public void SetStats(int[] value)
7.     {
8.         for (int i = 0; i <= 7; i++)
9.         {
10.             stats[i] = value[i];
11.          
12.         }
13.     }
14.  
15.     public int[] GetStats()
16.     {
17.         return stats;
18.     }
19. }
20.  

And with another class im trying to swap 2 of this classes int[] stats at this code:

Code (CSharp):

1. //We take both WeaponControllers from different objects.
2. WeaponController newWeaponStats = collision.gameObject.GetComponent<WeaponController>();
3. WeaponController weaponStats = GetComponentInChildren<WeaponController>();
4.  
5. //We made a new variable allocating one of this arrays values from the WeaponController class
6. Int[] temporalStats = newWeaponStats.GetStats();
7.  
8. //We swap the values with this 2 operations
9. newWeaponStats.SetStats(weaponStats.GetStats());
10. weaponStats.SetStats(temporalStats);

The issue beings when temporalStats values are modified when i do

Code (csharp):

1. newWeaponStats.SetStats(weaponStats.GetStats());

because I think I'm taking at temporalStats the reference from this values. How could I take the values themselves intead of their ref? As we can make with the ByVal keyword at VB.

Thanks you so much!