malleable

Gold is a highly malleable metal, easily hammered into thin sheets.

The clay remained malleable long enough for the sculptor to finish the vase.

“Clay was certainly malleable beneath trained fingers, she wrote, but artists themselves could also be shaped by markets and factions.”
— from the passage Clay and Conviction

“Because Sol considered every draft malleable, she welcomed large revisions and sometimes rewrote an entire exchange after one musical suggestion.”
— from the passage An Opera by Post

“Fresh pigments are also malleable in a skilled hand; precisely because they can be shaped into a persuasive imitation, they may cause speculation to pass for fact.”
— from the passage The Visible Scars