Yes, that’s not worship. Those are statues, not divinity, not even statues of divinity.
On your knees in front of a statue is worship.
All that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego needed to do is bow before "a statue"... a representation of a creature... They even knew the creature (Nebuchadnezzar II) personally. No chance they "thought he was divinity"... Yet they would *not* bow. On pain of death, even.
A very good lesson to remember.