diff --git a/lib/api/objectCopy.js b/lib/api/objectCopy.js
index bafda65f6e..8f5d6a3ef9 100644
--- a/lib/api/objectCopy.js
+++ b/lib/api/objectCopy.js
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ function objectCopy(authInfo, request, sourceBucket,
         authInfo,
         bucketName: sourceBucket,
         objectKey: sourceObject,
+        versionId: sourceVersionId,
         requestType: 'objectGet',
     };
     const valPutParams = {
diff --git a/tests/functional/aws-node-sdk/test/versioning/objectCopy.js b/tests/functional/aws-node-sdk/test/versioning/objectCopy.js
index ca2c5a9374..32ffda86e5 100644
--- a/tests/functional/aws-node-sdk/test/versioning/objectCopy.js
+++ b/tests/functional/aws-node-sdk/test/versioning/objectCopy.js
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ const newContentEncoding = 'gzip,aws-chunked';
 const newExpires = new Date();
 
 const content = 'I am the best content ever';
+const secondContent = 'I am the second best content ever';
 
 const otherAccountBucketUtility = new BucketUtility('lisa', {});
 const otherAccountS3 = otherAccountBucketUtility.s3;
@@ -101,7 +102,9 @@ testing('Object Version Copy', () => {
                 });
             }).then(res => {
                 lastModified = res.LastModified;
-            })
+            }).then(() => s3.putObjectAsync({ Bucket: sourceBucketName,
+                Key: sourceObjName,
+                Body: secondContent }))
         );
 
         afterEach(done => async.parallel([
@@ -113,7 +116,7 @@ testing('Object Version Copy', () => {
             s3.copyObject(Object.assign({
                 Bucket: destBucketName,
                 Key: destObjName,
-                CopySource: `${sourceBucketName}/${sourceObjName}`,
+                CopySource: copySource,
             }, fields), cb);
         }
 
@@ -681,7 +684,8 @@ testing('Object Version Copy', () => {
                 'source object and write permission on the destination ' +
                 'bucket to copy the object', done => {
                 s3.putObjectAcl({ Bucket: sourceBucketName,
-                    Key: sourceObjName, ACL: 'public-read' }, () => {
+                    Key: sourceObjName, ACL: 'public-read', VersionId:
+                    versionId }, () => {
                     otherAccountS3.copyObject({ Bucket: otherAccountBucket,
                         Key: otherAccountKey,
                         CopySource: copySource,