Someone might find this useful in future

I've gone with this approach.

Every db on my 4 production instances has a CopyCheck table.

EXECUTE sp_msforeachdb 'USE ?

IF DB_NAME() NOT IN(''master'',''msdb'',''tempdb'',''model'')

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CopyCheck](

[last_update] [smalldatetime]...

Indexed views can only be created on writable databases and log shipping/mirroring doesn't allow that scenario....

Its a fairly complex application, and has been under continual development for a number of years - but an external agency (government), and they believe all those indexes are required...