shapechanging adj.

Blew Gods the billowes crown’d, Shape-changing Proteus, Triton shrill.

The early settlers find a few surviving Martians—fragile humanoid creatures with a shape[-]changing power they sometimes use against Earthmen.

But supernatural terror is thin fare for people fearing a more material knock at the door and a death that drops from the air shrieking in steel-cased bombs rather than fluttering on the wings of a shape-changing bat.

There are other shape-changing races, some of them less human in appearance than the dikri.

Events again force her to rely on alienated individuals: Hywel, her husband…and Tam, the shape-changing, alien, xenobiologist.

It was the song of one who wants to die, who awaits the coming of the shape-changing wolf.

The receptionist, who Lunzie suspected was a shapechanging Weft because of the utter perfection of her human form, impassively checked Lunzie’s credit code.

The tale is engrossing, particular the bits about a human orphan being raised by dragons. The strong mix of wildly varying characters, particularly the heroine’s shapechanging stepbrother-dragon, adds a distinct charm.

Mercy, while she has a career as a car mechanic, is also a shapechanging coyote.