Genesis 1:26-27 are rather non-descriptive but it is obvious elsewhere in the scriptures.
In fact, reading on to the next page, in Genesis 2:7 you find that God “formed man of the dust of the ground”.
Then he “breathed into his nostrils the breath of life” which caused man to become a living soul.

Turn to Mormon 9:17 to have this confirmed.
Job 33:4-6 (Elihu to Job) “Behold, I am according to thy wish in God’s stead: I am also formed out of the clay”

If you continue on past Genesis 2:7 you’ll find that after god made man, he formed every beast of the field in Genesis 2:19 as a companion for Adam.
Keep going and in Genesis 2:21 he took a rib from Adam to make Eve.

Certainly not through evolution as some suggest because animals were after man and man was made from the dust of the earth.

And, as a follow-up to the comment before mine; the creation story is not simply allegorical.
To accept this approach is to ignore the revelation given to Joseph Smith in March of 1832 (185 Years ago).

D&C 77:12. Joseph spoke of the creation in six days because God revealed its truth to him. Man from dust. 7,000 year temporal existence of earth.