You'll have to be somewhat more specific with regards to what form of transformation you refer to. Shaper shifter, red riding hood and the wolf, multiple personality disorders, serial killer etc... The one common thread in this context is that appearances are always deceiving so it is always wise to be on your guard in any given situation because absolute safety is an illusion.
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Even in the not-officially-segregated North, there was often a wide gulf between the color-blindness of the American dream and the racial discrimination in daily life, which, early in their lives, crushed the aspirations and dashed the hopes of promising young black Americans. In this story (published in 1941), celebrated poet, novelist, and playwright Langston Hughes (1902–67) describes such an incident in the life of a talented and proud American high school student, Nancy Lee Johnso
There were five sandwiches on the table.
Five is the adjective in the sentence