I needed something similar, the ability to click on a set of icons to indicate a choice, or a text-based choice and have that update the model (2-way-binding) with the represented value and to also a way to indicate which was selected visually. I created an AngularJS directive for it, since it needed to be flexible enough to handle any HTML element being clicked on to indicate a choice.
<ul ng-repeat="vote in votes" ...>
<li data-choice="selected" data-value="vote.id">...</li>
</ul>