There are FAKE identities (PERSONS) and there are GENUINE identities (SOULS). God wants to make us each a LIVING soul by giving us ETERNAL life (the only "LIFE" is ETERNAL because it remains forever with the Creator, otherwise we only have unintelligible EXISTENCE.
A "book made person" is an automaton with no creative and altruistic abilities (God has no use for these 'inanimate objects'.