It seems like the Plot component mutates its props (at least layout) instead of cloning the data.
Mutation of props is to me unexpected (and undesired) behavior for a react component.

If for instance the layout is stored in the state of a component and then fed to the Plot component as a prop, like

render() {
  <Plot
    layout={this.state.layout},
    ...
    />

we will have a problem, since this.state only should be updated with the react setState() method.