[Feature] Add a flag to clone to skip selected models that don't exist
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Description
### Is this your first time submitting a feature request?
- [X] I have read the [expectations for open source contributors](https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/contributing/oss-expectations)
- [X] I have searched the existing issues, and I could not find an existing issue for this feature
- [X] I am requesting a straightforward extension of existing dbt functionality, rather than a Big Idea better suited to a discussion
### Describe the feature
There should be an option for the dbt clone command to skip models that don't exist in the source schema instead of failing.
### Describe alternatives you've considered
This can be done manually via a query run against the catalog to find out what tables exist in the source with the results of that used to construct the select statement in the clone command.
### Who will this benefit?
My use case for this is a slim-ci variant where we clone data from production to our CI schema and then only rebuild modified tables. However, this breaks if a new model has been merged to main since the last time our production dbt job has run (since clone tries to copy a table that doesn't yet exist).
### Are you interested in contributing this feature?
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### Anything else?
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