Sci Fi future - spy uses shape shifting robots

[Michael]

Future sci fi book where main character uses 2-3 shape shifting robots as spies. One was configured as a slow moving houseplant to avoid camera detection in a home

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Did you read it closer to 2010, or 1950?
Publication time?
Cover?
Author's gender?

[Michael]

Read during last 5 years. Suspect a make author. Maine character was a roboticist / corporate spy

[Michael]

Sorry - male author