Forms short row, with leader of soldiers on point (7)
I believe the answer is:
sculpts
'forms' is the definition.
(sculpting is a kind of forming)
'row with leader of soldiers on point' is the wordplay.
'row with' becomes 'scul' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'leader of' indicates taking the first letters.
'on' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'point' becomes 'pt' (abbreviation for point).
The initial letter of 'soldiers' is 's'.
's' put after 'pt' is 'pts'.
'scul'+'pts'='SCULPTS'
'short' is the link.
(Other definitions for sculpts that I've seen before include "Does artistic work" , "Carves" .)