Unlike desktop programs, Metro apps don't have EXEs and shortcuts in the traditional sense. Instead, their shortcuts are specially designed to instruct Metro to activate the right package.
The IE shortcut is doubly-special because when launched from the desktop it does one thing and when launched from the start screen it does another.
You should not ever delete those shortcuts. The start menu makes it difficult to delete the shortcuts in the Apps menu for just that reason. Unfortunately IE is not in the Apps folder but in the regular start menu folder and doesn't have such protection.
You can try few things to restore it:
1) Try the attached shortcut. I copied it from my Windows 8.1 installation
2) Try creating a new account and copy the shortcut from there
3) See if you can pin a URL to the start screen (Bing, Google, whatever works) and use it as your shortcut for launching IE
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