No, they are not. Just as you might display pictures of your family, statues of the saints remind us about their stories and help us to emulate their holiness. Since we love the saints as our heavenly friends, it stands to reason that we would want to think of them often. The Council of Trent says, Moreover, that the images of Christ, of the Virgin Mother of God, and of the other saints, are to be had and retained particularly in temples, and that due honour and veneration are to be given them; not that any divinity, or virtue, is believed to be in them, on account of which they are to be worshipped; or that anything is to be asked of them; or, that trust is to be reposed in images, as was of old done by the Gentiles who placed their hope in idols; but because the honour which is shown them is referred to the prototypes which those images represent; in such wise that by the images which we kiss, and before which we uncover the head, and prostrate ourselves, we adore Christ; and we venerate the saints, whose similitude they bear… (Council of Trent, Section 25, Decree 2)