Complex Object link to planar surface, is it possible?

Hello everyone, 

my grasshopper skill is still little rough, and I started thinking about a problem that i'm hoping someone may help me out with.

is it possible to link a complex object or objects and assign a planar surface to it that I could able to fold or bend and the complex object would follow? kind of like cage edit but simple surface rather than a boundingbox. 

maybe maya able to do such thing, if anyone knows a way to do it in another software, I would appreciate it.  I'm interested to hear any suggestion  

thank you