Keep Your Shape by Robert Sheckley
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Vocational Commitments

Animists believe that animals, plants, and even inert natural objects have souls. And who knows, they could be right. My mother claimed she could speak with the dead. One novel explanation for the existence of a soul-filled nature is provided in Sheckley’s bijou Aesopian fable of shape-adapting alien invaders who are enthralled by the diversity of earth’s species. Overwhelmed by the freedom to exercise their morphological talents, the invaders become trapped by their own ideals in suitable earthly forms.

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