diff --git a/c/CHANGELOG.rst b/c/CHANGELOG.rst
index 59acd61935..2366841c0f 100644
--- a/c/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/c/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@
 - Reduce the maximum number of rows in a table by 1. This removes edge cases so that a ``tsk_id_t`` can be
   used to count the number of rows. (:user:`benjeffery`, :issue:`2336`, :pr:`2337`)
 
+- Samples are now copied by ``tsk_variant_restricted_copy``. (:user:`benjeffery`, :issue:`2400`, :pr:`XXXX`)
+
+
 --------------------
 [1.0.0] - 2022-05-24
 --------------------
diff --git a/c/tests/test_genotypes.c b/c/tests/test_genotypes.c
index a21200f731..4dd5a80aa4 100644
--- a/c/tests/test_genotypes.c
+++ b/c/tests/test_genotypes.c
@@ -979,14 +979,29 @@ test_variant_copy(void)
     ret = tsk_variant_decode(&var_copy, 0, 0);
     CU_ASSERT_EQUAL_FATAL(ret, TSK_ERR_VARIANT_CANT_DECODE_COPY);
 
+    CU_ASSERT_EQUAL(
+        0, memcmp(var.tree_sequence, var.tree_sequence, sizeof(*var.tree_sequence)));
+    CU_ASSERT_EQUAL(0, memcmp(&var.tree, &var_copy.tree, sizeof(tsk_tree_t)));
     CU_ASSERT_EQUAL(0, memcmp(&var.site, &var_copy.site, sizeof(tsk_site_t)));
-    CU_ASSERT_EQUAL(0, memcmp(var.genotypes, var_copy.genotypes, sizeof(int32_t)));
+    CU_ASSERT_EQUAL(0, memcmp(var.genotypes, var_copy.genotypes,
+                           sizeof(int32_t) * (size_t) var.num_samples));
+    CU_ASSERT_EQUAL(var.num_alleles, var_copy.num_alleles);
     CU_ASSERT_EQUAL(
         0, memcmp(var.allele_lengths, var_copy.allele_lengths, sizeof(tsk_size_t)));
     for (j = 0; j < var.num_alleles; j++) {
         CU_ASSERT_EQUAL(0,
             memcmp(var.alleles[j], var_copy.alleles[j], (size_t) var.allele_lengths[j]));
     }
+    CU_ASSERT_EQUAL(var.has_missing_data, var_copy.has_missing_data);
+    CU_ASSERT_EQUAL(var.num_alleles, var_copy.num_alleles);
+    CU_ASSERT_EQUAL(var.num_samples, var_copy.num_samples);
+    CU_ASSERT_EQUAL(0, memcmp(var.samples, var_copy.samples,
+                           sizeof(*var.samples) * (size_t) var.num_samples));
+
+    CU_ASSERT_EQUAL(var_copy.traversal_stack, NULL);
+    CU_ASSERT_EQUAL(var_copy.sample_index_map, NULL);
+    CU_ASSERT_EQUAL(var_copy.alt_samples, NULL);
+    CU_ASSERT_EQUAL(var_copy.alt_sample_index_map, NULL);
 
     tsk_variant_free(&var);
     tsk_variant_free(&var_copy);
diff --git a/c/tskit/genotypes.c b/c/tskit/genotypes.c
index 92a514c280..320e3bca8e 100644
--- a/c/tskit/genotypes.c
+++ b/c/tskit/genotypes.c
@@ -598,17 +598,20 @@ tsk_variant_restricted_copy(const tsk_variant_t *self, tsk_variant_t *other)
     for (j = 0; j < self->num_alleles; j++) {
         total_len += self->allele_lengths[j];
     }
+    other->samples = tsk_malloc(other->num_samples * sizeof(tsk_id_t));
     other->genotypes = tsk_malloc(other->num_samples * sizeof(int32_t));
     other->user_alleles_mem = tsk_malloc(total_len * sizeof(char *));
     other->allele_lengths
         = tsk_malloc(other->num_alleles * sizeof(*other->allele_lengths));
     other->alleles = tsk_malloc(other->num_alleles * sizeof(*other->alleles));
-    if (other->genotypes == NULL || other->user_alleles_mem == NULL
-        || other->allele_lengths == NULL || other->alleles == NULL) {
+    if (other->samples == NULL || other->genotypes == NULL
+        || other->user_alleles_mem == NULL || other->allele_lengths == NULL
+        || other->alleles == NULL) {
         ret = TSK_ERR_NO_MEMORY;
         goto out;
     }
-
+    tsk_memcpy(
+        other->samples, self->samples, other->num_samples * sizeof(*other->samples));
     tsk_memcpy(other->genotypes, self->genotypes, other->num_samples * sizeof(int32_t));
     tsk_memcpy(other->allele_lengths, self->allele_lengths,
         other->num_alleles * sizeof(*other->allele_lengths));
@@ -619,6 +622,7 @@ tsk_variant_restricted_copy(const tsk_variant_t *self, tsk_variant_t *other)
         other->alleles[j] = other->user_alleles_mem + offset;
         offset += other->allele_lengths[j];
     }
+
 out:
     return ret;
 }
diff --git a/python/CHANGELOG.rst b/python/CHANGELOG.rst
index 070434135a..3dd1f960d4 100644
--- a/python/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/python/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@
 [0.5.1] - 2022-0X-XX
 --------------------
 
+**Fixes**
+
+- Copies of a `Variant` object would cause a segfault when ``.samples`` was accessed.
+  (:user:`benjeffery`, :issue:`2400`, :pr:`XXXX`)
+
+
 **Changes**
 
 - Tables in a table collection can be replaced using the replace_with method
diff --git a/python/tests/test_genotypes.py b/python/tests/test_genotypes.py
index 037f24e8ca..1ce4bc95cf 100644
--- a/python/tests/test_genotypes.py
+++ b/python/tests/test_genotypes.py
@@ -359,6 +359,8 @@ def test_samples(self):
                 for var1, var2 in zip(ts.variants(), ts.variants(samples=s)):
                     assert var1.site == var2.site
                     assert var1.alleles == var2.alleles
+                    assert np.array_equal(var1.samples, ts.samples())
+                    assert np.array_equal(var2.samples, s)
                     assert var2.genotypes.shape == (len(s),)
                     assert np.array_equal(var1.genotypes[s], var2.genotypes)
                     count += 1
diff --git a/python/tests/test_lowlevel.py b/python/tests/test_lowlevel.py
index dbadb0ef82..3d328a31bb 100644
--- a/python/tests/test_lowlevel.py
+++ b/python/tests/test_lowlevel.py
@@ -2414,13 +2414,37 @@ def test_variants_lifecycle(self):
         del variant
         assert np.array_equal(genotypes, expected)
 
-    def test_copy(self):
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize("isolated_as_missing", [True, False])
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize("samples", [None, [], (0,)])
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize("alleles", [None, ("1", "0")])
+    def test_copy(self, isolated_as_missing, samples, alleles):
         ts = self.get_example_tree_sequence(random_seed=42)
-        variant = _tskit.Variant(ts)
+        variant = _tskit.Variant(
+            ts,
+            isolated_as_missing=isolated_as_missing,
+            samples=samples,
+            alleles=alleles,
+        )
+
+        # Test taking a copy before decode
+        variant2 = variant.restricted_copy()
+        assert variant.site_id == variant2.site_id
+        assert variant.alleles == variant2.alleles
+        print(variant.alleles)
+        assert np.array_equal(variant.genotypes, variant2.genotypes)
+        assert np.array_equal(variant.samples, variant2.samples)
+        assert variant.isolated_as_missing == variant2.isolated_as_missing
+
         variant.decode(0)
         # Everything below should work even if the Python ts is free'd
         del ts
         variant2 = variant.restricted_copy()
+        assert variant.site_id == variant2.site_id
+        assert variant.alleles == variant2.alleles
+        assert np.array_equal(variant.genotypes, variant2.genotypes)
+        assert np.array_equal(variant.samples, variant2.samples)
+        assert variant.isolated_as_missing == variant2.isolated_as_missing
+
         # Take a copy for comparison, then move the variant to check the copy
         # doesn't move too
         genotypes = variant.genotypes
@@ -2434,13 +2458,18 @@ def test_copy(self):
             variant2.decode(1)
         assert site_id == variant2.site_id
         assert alleles == variant2.alleles
+        # Other properties shouldn't have changed
+        assert np.array_equal(variant.samples, variant2.samples)
+        assert variant.isolated_as_missing == variant2.isolated_as_missing
 
         # Variant should be equal to the copy we took earlier
         assert np.array_equal(genotypes_copy, variant2.genotypes)
         # But not equal to the un-copies genotypes anymore as they
         # have decoded a new site as a side effect of reusing the
         # array when decoding
-        assert not np.array_equal(genotypes, variant2.genotypes)
+        assert len(variant.samples) == 0 or not np.array_equal(
+            genotypes, variant2.genotypes
+        )
 
         # Check the lifecycle of copies and copies of copies
         del variant