shapeshifts

Verb

shapeshift (third-person singular simple present shapeshifts, present participle shapeshifting, simple past and past participle shapeshifted)

1. (intransitive) To change one's shape or form (into another) through often magical means, normally applied only to living beings.
   • For it was by shape-shifting and magic art, as poets tell, that Paris first beguiled Fair Helen.1891, H. Rider Haggard and Andrew Lang, The World's Desire, volume II, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, page 13
2. (figuratively, intransitive) To undergo a noticeable change (in character for example), to metamorphosize.
   • While Chelsea Wolfe has often shapeshifted in terms of how she presents her music, one thing remains constant: her big mood.2019, Adam Turner-Heffer, Chelsea Wolfe: Birth of Violence review, The Skinny, September 2019, page 57