Which languages allow to change identity of an object (not cast)? [closed]

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In this post, a brave wants (in C++) to downcast a object of type Base to a Derived type. Assuming that the Derived type has no more attributes than Base, it can make sense if you're jealous of the extra methods that the Derived class provides.

Are there programming languages that allow such a thing?