diff --git a/docs/changelog.rst b/docs/changelog.rst
index 9c6e8c8..e732e58 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.rst
+++ b/docs/changelog.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 Changelog
 ==========
 
+Version 0.5.4 (in development)
+------------------------------
+
+* Fix ``.non_polymorphic()`` to returns a clone of the queryset, instead of effecting the existing queryset.
+
+
 Version 0.5.3 (2013-09-17)
 --------------------------
 
diff --git a/polymorphic/query.py b/polymorphic/query.py
index 7f6d70d..35d091a 100644
--- a/polymorphic/query.py
+++ b/polymorphic/query.py
@@ -67,8 +67,9 @@ class PolymorphicQuerySet(QuerySet):
         """switch off polymorphic behaviour for this query.
         When the queryset is evaluated, only objects of the type of the
         base class used for this query are returned."""
-        self.polymorphic_disabled = True
-        return self
+        qs = self._clone()
+        qs.polymorphic_disabled = True
+        return qs
 
     def instance_of(self, *args):
         """Filter the queryset to only include the classes in args (and their subclasses).
@@ -109,8 +110,8 @@ class PolymorphicQuerySet(QuerySet):
         """translate the polymorphic field paths in the kwargs, then call vanilla aggregate.
         We need no polymorphic object retrieval for aggregate => switch it off."""
         self._process_aggregate_args(args, kwargs)
-        self.polymorphic_disabled = True
-        return super(PolymorphicQuerySet, self).aggregate(*args, **kwargs)
+        qs = self.non_polymorphic()
+        return super(PolymorphicQuerySet, qs).aggregate(*args, **kwargs)
 
     # Since django_polymorphic 'V1.0 beta2', extra() always returns polymorphic results.^
     # The resulting objects are required to have a unique primary key within the result set