[NirAntae]

Hotkey issue aside, I absolutely second (third? fourth?) this idea. Beyond the players that have alternate identities/stories for their shapechanges, I've also repeatedly run into the issue of people metagaming my character's beast form to his human form and vice versa. I think it would remind people to not do this if I were even able to just do a simple name change to "a massive wolf" or "a dire wolf", etc etc.

I think it would need to be more individualized than that, if such an idea is accepted.  Mostly because it needs to be identifying.  ie, it would still need to be a 'name', not a generic descriptor.