Is with() appropriate for operating on function result?

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In my quest to be more functional, I’m trying to use data classes in an immutable way and write my methods more functionally. Let’s say I have the following method:

fun mutateDataObject(o: object): object

That is, it receives a data object, mutates it, and returns the mutated object.

I would prefer to not have to create new val declarations every time I call one of these methods, and I have been experimenting with using a with() block to contain the result:

with(mutateDataObject(a)) {
    if this.member ==1 then return "yes" else return "no"
}

Is this a valid use of the with() structure in Kotlin?

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It’s more or less the exact reason with() exists.