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I doubt it's a problem with boobies (consensual, marital sex is considered one of/the highest forms of worship). Rather, the whole issue is one of idols and idolatry.
The short version of Islam's version of the Abraham & kids story is that Abraham destroyed his father's idols, except for one (the largest), claimed that it destroyed all the others, and later Ishmael and Hagar (Abraham's son & wife's handmaiden, respectively) found the Ka'ba and settled in now-Mecca as the first Muslims.
The important part is that the idols are symbols of other gods and in turn of polytheism, and that a very fundamental tenet of Islam (& Christianity, & Judaism) is the the exclusionary monotheism.
Another critical tenet of Islam is not to create images/icons of god or, I believe, the prophet: something about keeping the focus on the message & on God. This is why you see very little ancient Islamic art that is not calligraphy or architecture.
I suspect that in the context of the Hadith (7th century SW Asia), there was very little sculpture as "art for art's sake"; that it was predominately religious, and that, given you are forbidden on the one hand from making sculptures of God, forbidden on the other from making sculptures of other gods, and probably going to be accused of falsely deifying someone if you try to sculpt, say, your buddy Joe or your favorite rich patron, there really is very little room for sculpture.
And so, if in their society there is no legitimate place for sculpture as an art form, if essentially any sort of sculpture is inherently heretical, it makes sense to a) forbid or discourage people from trying to find the very fine line of acceptable sculpture, b) say that "sculptors shall be tormented most."
That said, IANASIJ (I Am Not A Scholar of Islamic Jurisprudence), & I like sculpture.
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