Why wouldn't she want to be like the Doctor? Everyone does!
The Doctor is an attractive figure, not always only in the physical sense.
When things seem most hopeless, he bursts onto the scene in his time machine, and, with a few words and a wave of his screwdriver, dismantles the villains' carefully built plans.
He has done a lot of terrible things, but he has also achieved many incredible things. He is, though he does not recognize it, a hero. He has saved the entire human race hundreds of times, the universe several times, and the entire Doctor Who multiverse at least once.
He defeated the Master when he attempted to subjugate humanity with the Toclafane , and when he attempted to rule the universe by releasing the entropy wave from Logopolis, or when he tried to turn all humans on Earth into his clones, or when....
He stopped the Daleks in the xenocidal crusade again and again, even preventing them from destroying all universes at the Medusa Cascade.
He defeated the Cybermen, the Great Intelligence, the Memeovore, the Fendahl, the Silence, the Great Intelligence.
He has had to make some pretty difficult decisions, and sometimes made the wrong ones, but he always cares.
To his companions, the Doctor must be the very embodiment of adventure.
They all grow to admire him in some respect.
Indeed, Rose, Martha, Jack, and Amy (among others) fell in love with the Doctor.
And Clara travels with this person for years. Of course she will admire him. Of course she will want to be like him.
Even Moffat wants to be the Doctor:
"But when they made this particular hero, they didn't give him a
gun--they gave him a screwdriver to fix things. They didn't give him a
tank or a warship or an x-wing fighter--they gave him a box from which
you can call for help. And they didn't give him a superpower or pointy
ears or a heat-ray--they gave him an extra HEART. They gave him two
hearts! And that's an extraordinary thing. There will never come a
time when we don't need a hero like the Doctor.”
Travelling with the Doctor is the focus of her life
Far more than any other companion on the new series (well, except Jack), Clara has much less to tie her to Earth. Rose had her mother (and her alternate-universe father, and initially Mickey). Martha had her parents and siblings. Donna had her grandfather and her mother. Rory and Amy had each other. Clara had Danny Pink, and then he died. It is no coincidence that she threw herself into travelling with the Doctor after this loss.
When travelling, and adventuring, and heroism became all of Clara's life, it was the first step on the path to becoming like the Doctor. After all, his lifestyle became the very model for hers.
All the other companions experienced this, to some degree. Witness Martha taking up alien fighting with UNIT, or Jack working with Torchwood, or Sarah Jane Smith running her own outfit for managing extraterrestrial threats (and allies).
All of the Doctor's companions become more like the Doctor. It was strongest for Clara, because she had so few other ties.
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