@Arnau Colldeforns Thanks for your patience on this. I have summarized our offline discussion and posting the same as an answer for the benefit of other community members.
Our App Service engineering team has identified a bug, and a fix has been deployed to mitigate this issue.
Post the fix deployment customer has confirmed that. they are able to create the deployment slot without any issues.
Please accept as Yes if the answer provided is useful, so that you can help others in the community looking for remediation for similar issues.