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We normally use the passive with verbs that express the idea of agency: something done to {someone or something} by {someone or something else} else.

Have, in the sense of "to own or possess", although transitive, does not involve a doing, and for that reason it does not lend itself to passive expression.

On the other hand:

He bought the book

can become

The book was bought by him.

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