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"If this theory is true then there should be plenty of real life samples that scientists can collect from the clay based soil surrounding any of the volcanic fissures on the planet today."

No, there shouldn't be. The conditions on the Earth now are not like the conditions on the Earth 4 billion years ago. The biggest difference? Today there are already organisms ready to devour any organic matter that forms. In order for life to arise now, it would have to do so in a place where no other life exists, and where no other life has already filled in that ecological niche. Such a place no longer exists; life is pretty much everywhere that it can be on the Earth right now. The period of biogenesis on the Earth would be necessarily self-limited in length.

sounds good, but there are a few problems with your statement...one...if there are organisms today that are ready to devour any organic matter that forms, by your own admission there are organisms today that rely at least in part on this organic matter...ie....it still is being produced. your argument that early clay life cannot exist because it was at the bottom of the food chain doesn't hold water either...following your logic, there would be no examples of simple life forms available today because bigger...more evolved predators would have eaten them all. Also, if all the proteins that existed back then ate all of the complex clay molecules, how did they survive after that?