Actually, the topic is so deep that to dismiss it in a few sentences doesn't give it justice. Thinkers and seekers of the truth, as well as spiritual practitioners from all religions, have concluded that the self is the eternal soul/atma, and the body is a temporary vehicle or covering that is in our possession, for a time.
Are you suggesting that this establishes "property rights" in one's body? Soul or atma cannot begin to express itself in the space-time plane without the organic body to which it is inseparably joined in physical reality. The bodily manifestation is simply part of the same energy continuum that is the self. I mean, it's not like a shoe or a suit that one puts on, or takes off at will.