This is frequently needed. Sandstorm had `OwnCapnp` for this purpose:

https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm/blob/4d86a8144cdb43120ea12845738d0fe4a6ffcda1/src/sandstorm/util.h#L495-L525

The Workers codebase has some ad-hoc copies of this logic too, and multiple people have requested something similar on the mailing list.