diff --git a/api/shadow.api b/api/shadow.api
index e7c4d8a76..147c42d41 100644
--- a/api/shadow.api
+++ b/api/shadow.api
@@ -434,16 +434,14 @@ public class com/github/jengelman/gradle/plugins/shadow/transformers/GroovyExten
 }
 
 public class com/github/jengelman/gradle/plugins/shadow/transformers/IncludeResourceTransformer : com/github/jengelman/gradle/plugins/shadow/transformers/Transformer {
-	public fun <init> ()V
+	public fun <init> (Lorg/gradle/api/model/ObjectFactory;)V
 	public fun canTransformResource (Lorg/gradle/api/file/FileTreeElement;)Z
-	public final fun getFile ()Ljava/io/File;
+	public final fun getFile ()Lorg/gradle/api/file/RegularFileProperty;
 	public fun getName ()Ljava/lang/String;
 	public fun getObjectFactory ()Lorg/gradle/api/model/ObjectFactory;
-	public final fun getResource ()Ljava/lang/String;
+	public final fun getResource ()Lorg/gradle/api/provider/Property;
 	public fun hasTransformedResource ()Z
 	public fun modifyOutputStream (Lorg/apache/tools/zip/ZipOutputStream;Z)V
-	public final fun setFile (Ljava/io/File;)V
-	public final fun setResource (Ljava/lang/String;)V
 	public fun transform (Lcom/github/jengelman/gradle/plugins/shadow/transformers/TransformerContext;)V
 }
 
diff --git a/src/main/kotlin/com/github/jengelman/gradle/plugins/shadow/transformers/IncludeResourceTransformer.kt b/src/main/kotlin/com/github/jengelman/gradle/plugins/shadow/transformers/IncludeResourceTransformer.kt
index 14f20385c..3b4d1ddef 100644
--- a/src/main/kotlin/com/github/jengelman/gradle/plugins/shadow/transformers/IncludeResourceTransformer.kt
+++ b/src/main/kotlin/com/github/jengelman/gradle/plugins/shadow/transformers/IncludeResourceTransformer.kt
@@ -1,9 +1,13 @@
 package com.github.jengelman.gradle.plugins.shadow.transformers
 
+import com.github.jengelman.gradle.plugins.shadow.internal.property
 import com.github.jengelman.gradle.plugins.shadow.transformers.TransformerContext.Companion.getEntryTimestamp
-import java.io.File
+import javax.inject.Inject
 import org.apache.tools.zip.ZipEntry
 import org.apache.tools.zip.ZipOutputStream
+import org.gradle.api.file.RegularFileProperty
+import org.gradle.api.model.ObjectFactory
+import org.gradle.api.provider.Property
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.Input
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.InputFile
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.PathSensitive
@@ -16,22 +20,24 @@ import org.gradle.api.tasks.PathSensitivity
  *
  * @author John Engelman
  */
-public open class IncludeResourceTransformer : Transformer by NoOpTransformer {
+public open class IncludeResourceTransformer @Inject constructor(
+  override val objectFactory: ObjectFactory,
+) : Transformer by NoOpTransformer {
   @get:InputFile
   @get:PathSensitive(PathSensitivity.NONE)
-  public var file: File? = null
+  public val file: RegularFileProperty = objectFactory.fileProperty()
 
   @get:Input
-  public var resource: String? = null
+  public val resource: Property<String> = objectFactory.property()
 
-  override fun hasTransformedResource(): Boolean = file?.exists() == true
+  override fun hasTransformedResource(): Boolean = file.get().asFile.exists() == true
 
   override fun modifyOutputStream(os: ZipOutputStream, preserveFileTimestamps: Boolean) {
-    val entry = ZipEntry(requireNotNull(resource))
+    val entry = ZipEntry(resource.get())
     entry.time = getEntryTimestamp(preserveFileTimestamps, entry.time)
     os.putNextEntry(entry)
 
-    requireNotNull(file).inputStream().use { inputStream ->
+    file.get().asFile.inputStream().use { inputStream ->
       inputStream.copyTo(os)
     }
   }
diff --git a/src/test/groovy/com/github/jengelman/gradle/plugins/shadow/TransformerSpec.groovy b/src/test/groovy/com/github/jengelman/gradle/plugins/shadow/TransformerSpec.groovy
index f9eb12b58..aac98bc18 100644
--- a/src/test/groovy/com/github/jengelman/gradle/plugins/shadow/TransformerSpec.groovy
+++ b/src/test/groovy/com/github/jengelman/gradle/plugins/shadow/TransformerSpec.groovy
@@ -758,7 +758,7 @@ staticExtensionClasses=com.acme.bar.SomeStaticExtension'''.stripIndent()).write(
         'ComponentsXmlResourceTransformer'  | ''
         'DontIncludeResourceTransformer'    | ''
         'GroovyExtensionModuleTransformer'  | ''
-        'IncludeResourceTransformer'        | '{ resource = "test.file"; file = file("test/some.file") }'
+        'IncludeResourceTransformer'        | '{ resource.set("test.file"); file.fileValue(file("test/some.file")) }'
         'Log4j2PluginsCacheFileTransformer' | ''
         'ManifestAppenderTransformer'       | ''
         'ManifestResourceTransformer'       | ''