I'm guessing it compiled them both but they had the same name and the copy was compiled second. I'm not sure the right way to handle this.. ignore the file if has extra gunk after the height field? I've got it filed now, anyway..
They are loaded from a single file in your game’s source folder with the suffix "-table-<w>-<h>" before the file extension.
My understanding has always been that that to be treated as a imageTable it has to end with "-table-<w>-<h>" otherwise this is just a normal image. So I would simply expect car-table-38-38 copy.png to be exported as a simple image call car-table-38-38 copy