Orders Dutch artist to pursue damages (8)
I believe the answer is:
marshals
'orders dutch' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both related to change as well as being verbs in their -s form.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'artist to pursue damages' is the wordplay.
'artist' becomes 'hals' (I've seen this before).
'to pursue' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'damages' becomes 'mars' (marring is a kind of damaging).
'hals' after 'mars' is 'MARSHALS'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for marshals that I've seen before include "Crowd-controllers at large public events" , "Chief officers" , "Arranges" , "Officials" .)