Well, of course it is possible. The key module to use is overload. You can the overload the differnt reference access methods. Now, since bless needs a reference to something, I haven't been able to figure out how to overload all dereferencing operations at the same time. Anyway here is the code: 
package Mutator;
use overload '%{}'=>\&as_hash,
  '${}'=>\&as_scalar,
  '@{}'=>\&as_array;

sub new{
  my $class=shift;
  my $scalar; #To get be able to create a scalar ref.
  
  #This is where we store the real values. We use a closeure 
  #below, so %ref will be associated with our anon. sub.
  #If you want to do some init of the variables, you can
  #do it here.
  my %ref=(hash=>{},
    array=>[],
    scalar=>\$scalar,
   );
  # Now this is the sub that returns the actual reference
  # that we use. We call it in the overloaded methods.
  my $sub=sub {
    my $arg=shift;
    return $ref{$arg};
  };
  #bless the anon. sub into this class
  return bless $sub, $class;
}

#Get hash ref
sub as_hash{
  my $s=shift;
  return $s->("hash");
}

#Get scalar ref
sub as_scalar{
  my $s=shift;
  return $s->("scalar");
}

#get array ref
sub as_array{
  my $s=shift;
  return $s->("array");
}

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