I often see the two verbs 変わる and 似る used in their た-form when modifying nouns
and I'm not really sure exactly how to make sense of them.

変わる: e.g. as in 「変わった人」. Here I'm wondering why it's not just always「変わっている」
instead. I'm truly no expert, but I would have read 変わった人 as "a person who
changed" rather than "a person who is different".

似た: e.g. as in 「似た者同士」. Like with 変わった, I would again have expected 似ている here.

Does this have something to do with the difference between static and punctual
verbs?

Thanks for reading!
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grammar tense relative-clauses
Explanation for 変わった and 似た as adjectivals