A mirror witch gets bonuses to certain skills (diplomacy, per day bluff or extra diplomacy or sense motive or a save, later to knowledge skills whenever they have 10 minutes free), & later on a few SLAs (augury, clairvoyance, scrying). Besides that they're effectively a normal witch whose familiar stays out of sight. Just about anything you can do as a witch you can do as a mirror witch.
You're going to want some social skills to take advantage of the above, so you'll be taking a trait or two which makes social skills run off Int.
Beyond that - a witch who throws around cold spells, possibly with rime spell to make them better debuffs is doable. Winter witch isn't compatible but invoker is. A witch who uses mindwarping spells is dead easy to make. Specialising in crowd control spells and other area effects is doable. There are witches who specialise in the ickiest spells they can find, vomit swarm or spit venom or whatever, or you could take the trickery patron to get mirror image so you can indulge in touch attack spells/spells like whip of spiders or Gozreh's trident.
Shadow gambit BTW works badly.
It's also possible for a witch to specialise in battlefield control StC. Dunno what you'd call that exactly.
A mirror witch looks at their own reflection a lot RoseCrown, like Narcissus who originated the term "narcissist".
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As a Mirror Witch, you wouldn't have to be a narcissist, although other people would likely think you were. You could just be like one of the many people in our world who spends an awful lot of their time looking at their cell phone (and if low Wisdom, often bumping into things as a result) -- I've even toyed with the character concept of someone from Earth who gets dumped onto Golarion, and finds that their cell phone has now become a Witch Mirror that mysteriously recharges itself, and although they can no longer get a signal from Earth, they are now getting a signal from something . . . .
Also, if you are willing to be a Gnome, Threatening Illusion (Metamagic +1 level) allows you to turn a Figment into a flanking partner. Problem is that for some of these spells you have to use your standard action for concentration on the spell, but if you have a Rogue/Ninja/Slayer partner, this could still be useful. Also, you can still make Attacks of Opportunity while concentrating on a spell, and if you are an Invoker (Mirror Witch or otherwise), you might actually be able to make this useful, although unfortunately you need every level possible to be a level of Invoker Witch (with or without the Mirror Witch archetype), so that hoses the idea of being an Invoker Arcane Trickster and providing your own Sneak Attack with the Threatening Illusion being your flanking partner (you could still be a Gnome Arcane Trickster and provide your own Figment flanking partner and Sneak Attack, but you're better off doing this as an Illusionist Wizard or Illusion-focused Sorcerer or Arcanist).
You can't take extra hex until level 3 since you get your first hex as an invoker at level 2. Fitting chilling in at 1, rime at 5 works with that.
Other feats? Split hex, amplified hex and quicken spell have their uses. The usual like improved initiative could help too. Spell penetration can be very useful for spellcasters.
As an illusion build - you might get threatening illusion (requires being a gnome) as UAE said, and effortless trickery to help with concentration. Solid shadows could help if you go for the shadow spells via whatever means. The veiled illusionist prestige class could help a lot with illusions though it doesn't progress anything to do with hex use.
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Poisons? They, uh, aren't great for PCs in PF. If you are going to use them though my build would involve the evil eye hex and a halfling witch with the bolster jinx and malicious eye feats.