does a List<> when changed change all other references to the LIst<>?

As we all know in Java if you change a object 'everyone' that has a reference to that object also changes like in the following example.

List<String> mainList = new ArrayList<String>(); 
mainList.add("a");
mainList.add("c");
mainList.add("b");
mainList.add("d");

System.out.println(Arrays.toString(mainList.toArray(new String[mainList.size()]))); // randomly ordered strings [a, c, b, d]

List<String> referencedList = mainList;// referencedList contains the same unordered strings [a, c, b, d]

Collections.sort(mainList);// mainList is sorted [a, b, c, d]
System.out.println(Arrays.toString(referencedList.toArray(new String[ referencedList.size()]))); // the referenced list is also sorted

Is there any way to get a List<> that only the objects within are updated across all of the arrays but the referenced arrays stay unsorted?