Photons with identical properties are indistinguishable from each other, so not really! You can get really picky about sending out only certain kinds of photon

Photons with identical properties are indistinguishable from each other, so not really! You can get really picky about sending out only certain kinds of photon and filtering them when they come back, but you might have some of that kind of photon in the environment anyway, or the target might be capable of generating them to swamp detectors. What it can't do is generate photons which are entangled with another photon you already have, so it kind of cuts through all the incremental stuff you could otherwise do (and which has been done already). At least, that's how I understand the physics involved at a fairly superficial level. This sounds like it's a long way away from being useful though, that slight issue of not having an abundant source of entangled photons is a huge blocker.