I was doing a test with replication on a figure with sub-surface scattering, and found that I couldn't get the SSS to apply to the replicated figures, only the original. I remember checking a box in the replicator properties that was something like "use object shader", but this didn't help. Here's an image showing the resulting render-

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v141/TerraMatrix/why.jpg

Any ideas? The only other thing I can think of would be to create instances.