Improve Experience of Renaming / Moving Constructs #2

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Description

The fix in #3152 doesn't actually apply to constructs, but instead only to TerraformResource #219 leaving a substantial gap/difficulty in renaming constructs.

Given you have a construct like

class Foo(Construct):
    def __init__(self, scope: Construct, name: str) -> None:
        super().__init__(scope, name)
        
        pass

If you call it with a name from within your stack:

class StackName(TerraformStack):
   def __init__(self, scope: Construct, name: str) -> None:
       super().__init__(scope, name)
       
       newthing = Foo(self, name="demo")

you cannot then do something like:

class StackName(TerraformStack):
    def __init__(self, scope: Construct, name: str) -> None:
        super().__init__(scope, name)
        
        newthing = Foo(self, name="demo-copy")
        newthing.move_from("demo")

Because there's no support for .move* methods of the Construct class (at least in python)

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