Let \(\mathcal {C}\) be the unit circle in the complex plane and let \(\mathbb {D}\) be the open unit disc. The Möbius transformations that preserve \(\mathbb {D}\) and \(\mathcal {C}\) are well known and find numerous applications in complex analysis and geometry. We are interested in symmetric multi-affine polynomials \(P(z_1, \ldots , z_n)\) with the property that for any \(u_3,\ldots , u_n\in \mathcal {C}\) , there exist \(u_1, u_2\in \mathcal {C}\) , such that \(P(u_1,\ldots ,u_n)=0\) . We thoroughly investigate and characterize the symmetric multi-affine polynomials with that property, in the cases \(n=2,3\) . When \(n=2\) this amounts to a characterization of the Möbius transformations T that are idempotents and have the property \(\mathcal {C} \cap T(\mathcal {C}) \not = \emptyset .\)