I saw this cool technical video of Hans Goddard's clone to quad tool
http://www.3dvf.com/actualite-16722-hans-godard-showreel-plugins-nodal-2016.html [www.3dvf.com]
in the video at 3:33

it lets costumes for one character size transfer to another character size with the same topology
does anyone know if there's some binding tools or something in houdini that will allow this to recreate the same effect?

like a mesh transformer lattice thing of some sort
https://www.toolchefs.com/?portfolio=harmonic-deformer [www.toolchefs.com]
maybe this would work, but it stops at maya 2017 for some reason