taw comments on Simon Conway Morris: "Aliens are likely to look and behave like us". - Less Wrong
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Because we have a sample size of life of 1, and sample size of intelligent life of 1, we have very little way of figuring out what would the second sample look like.
One thing I'd be willing to bet on is that it will be based on CHONPS chemistry like us.
Or at least, if it is constructed rather than evolved, that its evolved ancestors are CHONPS