If 'I' behaved as a standard indexical, its content in reported speech could be captured by a coreferring expression like 'she' or 'that person,' but 'Mary believes she* is hungry' is not equivalent to 'Mary believes I am hungry' even when 'she*' is bound to Mary.
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When you tell someone what another person said, rather than quoting them directly—like saying 'Mary said she was hungry' instead of 'Mary said I am hungry.'