Mirror Image

Whomever you secretly desired, they would be. They named the planet after the pretty wife of the corporation's boss. The planet itself seemed not so pretty... the first impression of the indentured worker-colonists was that it was dull. They they met the native creatures they called "amorphs". These changelings had a weird but effective defense technique - they changed shapes until they had the form of the most desirable object of any potential predator they encountered. When they met the humans what happened altered the whole future of the new planet. For suddenly the colonists found themelves in possession of a free labor force of slaves, fetishes, wives, husbands, and pets - until the time came to pay for their fun. At that moment, the Mirror Image became a vision out of nightmare. (from the back cover of the DAW Books first edition)