Is there a term for an past-tense adjective that implies transformation (e.g., "melted ice")?

Recently, someone objected to my use of the terms "melted ice" and "condensed steam," saying that those materials are no longer ice and steam, respectively. I agreed and said that the corresponding meanings are obviously "ice that has melted" and "steam that has condensed," i.e., liquid water for both. They maintained that the terms are meaningless. They appear thousands of times in the engineering and scientific literature, so they clearly have meaning to practitioners.

This made me wonder whether such adjectives are distinguished; e.g., "dirty ice" is ice that is dirty, but "melted ice," if it is indeed a meaningful term, isn’t ice. Is "melted" then a specific type of modifier?

I searched Google Scholar for a while with a variety of terms but couldn’t find this concept in the linguistics literature.