cck node creation

I have two content types: Request and Response. When Request reaches a certain state in its Workflow, Response is created. At this point, some fields from the Request are copied to the Response. The field types include Integer, Text, File, Date and User Reference. I can see two potential solutions here:

1) Create a node of type Response and copy the field values there.
There is an Action that creates a Node. But I could not find an easy way to copy the field values into this new Node.

2) Clone Request and convert one of the copies into Response.

Hello,
I couldn't figure out how I can configure creation message. Is it possible to do that?