example.scss

$my-icons-spacing: 10px; // give some space to avoid little pixel size issues on resize

@import "my-icons/*.png";

$my-icons-sprite-dimensions: true;

@include all-my-icons-sprites;

// the fun part

.small-icons { // overriding all sprites
  @include resize-sprite-set($my-icons-sprites, 40); // 40% sized
}

.some-part-of-my-site {
  @include resize-sprite-set($my-icons-sprites, 40, logo, ok); // will create overrides only for sprites "logo" and "ok"
}

implementation.scss

@mixin resize-sprite($map, $sprite, $percent) {
  $spritePath:    sprite-path($map);
  $spriteWidth:   image-width($spritePath);
  $spriteHeight:  image-height($spritePath);
  $width: image-width(sprite-file($map, $sprite));
  $height: image-height(sprite-file($map, $sprite));

  @include background-size(ceil($spriteWidth * ($percent/100)) ceil($spriteHeight * ($percent/100)));
  width: ceil($width*($percent/100));
  height: ceil($height*($percent/100));
  background-position: 0 floor(nth(sprite-position($map, $sprite), 2)  * ($percent/100) );
}

@mixin resize-sprite-set($map, $percent, $only...) {
  $name: sprite_map_name($map);

  @each $sprite in sprite_names($map) {
    @if length($only) == 0 or index($only, $sprite) != false {
      .#{$name}-#{$sprite} {
        @include resize-sprite($map, $sprite, $percent);
      }
    }
  }
}

usage.html

<h1>Regular Size</h1>
<a href="my-icons-facebook">Facebook</a>

<h1>Small</h1>
<div class="small-icons">
  <a href="my-icons-facebook">Facebook</a>
</div>