Change the display name and skin of any player. Credit to @bigteddy98, @ferrybig and @lenis0012 for writing the original version.

PlayerDisplayModifier.java

package com.comphenix.example;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.UUID;
import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentMap;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

// For ProtocolLib 3.3.1 and lower
import net.minecraft.util.com.mojang.authlib.GameProfile;
import net.minecraft.util.com.mojang.authlib.properties.Property;

// For ProtocolLib 3.4.0
//import com.comphenix.protocol.wrappers.WrappedSignedProperty;

import org.bukkit.Bukkit;
import org.bukkit.entity.Player;
import org.bukkit.plugin.Plugin;
import org.json.simple.JSONArray;
import org.json.simple.JSONObject;
import org.json.simple.parser.JSONParser;

import com.comphenix.protocol.PacketType;
import com.comphenix.protocol.ProtocolLibrary;
import com.comphenix.protocol.ProtocolManager;
import com.comphenix.protocol.events.ListenerPriority;
import com.comphenix.protocol.events.PacketAdapter;
import com.comphenix.protocol.events.PacketEvent;
import com.comphenix.protocol.reflect.StructureModifier;
import com.comphenix.protocol.wrappers.WrappedGameProfile;

import com.google.common.base.Charsets;
import com.google.common.base.Objects;
import com.google.common.cache.Cache;
import com.google.common.cache.CacheBuilder;
import com.google.common.cache.CacheLoader;
import com.google.common.collect.Maps;
import com.google.common.io.CharStreams;
import com.google.common.io.InputSupplier;
 
public class PlayerDisplayModifier {
    private static final String PROFILE_URL = "https://sessionserver.mojang.com/session/minecraft/profile/";
    private static final int WORKER_THREADS = 4;
    
    private ProtocolManager protocolManager;
    private ConcurrentMap<String, String> skinNames = Maps.newConcurrentMap();
    private ConcurrentMap<String, String> displayNames = Maps.newConcurrentMap();

    private Cache<String, String> profileCache = CacheBuilder.newBuilder().
        maximumSize(500).
        expireAfterWrite(4, TimeUnit.HOURS).
        build(new CacheLoader<String, String>() {
            public String load(String name) throws Exception {
                return getProfileJson(name);
            };
        });
    
    public PlayerDisplayModifier(Plugin plugin) {
        protocolManager = ProtocolLibrary.getProtocolManager();
        protocolManager.getAsynchronousManager().registerAsyncHandler(
          new PacketAdapter(plugin, ListenerPriority.NORMAL,
                 // Packet we are modifying
                 PacketType.Play.Server.NAMED_ENTITY_SPAWN, 
                 
                 // Packets that must be sent AFTER the entity spawn packet
                 PacketType.Play.Server.ENTITY_EFFECT,
                 PacketType.Play.Server.ENTITY_EQUIPMENT,
                 PacketType.Play.Server.ENTITY_METADATA, 
                 PacketType.Play.Server.UPDATE_ATTRIBUTES, 
                 PacketType.Play.Server.ATTACH_ENTITY, 
                 PacketType.Play.Server.BED) {
              
            // This will be executed on an asynchronous thread
            @Override
            public void onPacketSending(PacketEvent event) {
                // We only care about the entity spawn packet
                if (event.getPacketType() != PacketType.Play.Server.NAMED_ENTITY_SPAWN) {
                    return;
                }
                
                Player toDisplay = (Player) event.getPacket().getEntityModifier(event).read(0);
                String skinName = skinNames.get(toDisplay.getName());
                String displayName = displayNames.get(toDisplay.getName());
                
                if (skinName == null && displayName == null) {
                    return;
                }
                StructureModifier<WrappedGameProfile> profiles = event.getPacket().getGameProfiles();
                WrappedGameProfile original = profiles.read(0);
                WrappedGameProfile result = new WrappedGameProfile(
                    extractUUID(original.getName()), 
                    displayName != null ? displayName : original.getName()
                );
                
                updateSkin(result, skinName != null ? skinName : result.getName());
                profiles.write(0, result);
            }
        }).start(WORKER_THREADS);
    }

    @SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
    private UUID extractUUID(final String playerName) {
        return Bukkit.getOfflinePlayer(playerName).getUniqueId();
    }
    
    // This will be cached by Guava
    private String getProfileJson(String name) throws IOException {
        final URL url = new URL(PROFILE_URL + extractUUID(name).toString().replace("-", ""));
        final URLConnection uc = url.openConnection();

        return CharStreams.toString(new InputSupplier<InputStreamReader>() {
            @Override
            public InputStreamReader getInput() throws IOException {
                return new InputStreamReader(uc.getInputStream(), Charsets.UTF_8);
            }
        });
    }
    
    private void updateSkin(WrappedGameProfile profile, String skinOwner) {
        try {
            JSONObject json = (JSONObject) new JSONParser().parse(profileCache.get(skinOwner));
            JSONArray properties = (JSONArray) json.get("properties");
            
            for (int i = 0; i < properties.size(); i++) {
                JSONObject property = (JSONObject) properties.get(i);
                String name = (String) property.get("name");
                String value = (String) property.get("value");
                String signature = (String) property.get("signature"); // May be NULL
                
                // Uncomment for ProtocolLib 3.4.0
                //profile.getProperties().put(name, new WrappedSignedProperty(name, value, signature));
                ((GameProfile)profile.getHandle()).getProperties().put(name, new Property(name, value, signature));
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            // ProtocolLib will throttle the number of exceptions printed to the console log
            throw new RuntimeException("Cannot fetch profile for " + skinOwner, e);
        }
    }
    
    public void changeDisplay(String string, String toSkin) {
        changeDisplay(string, toSkin, null);
    }
 
    public void changeDisplay(Player player, String toSkin, String toName) {
        if (updateMap(skinNames, player.getName(), toSkin) | 
            updateMap(displayNames, player.getName(), toName)) {
            refreshPlayer(player);
        }
    }
   
    public void changeDisplay(String playerName, String toSkin, String toName) {
        if (updateMap(skinNames, playerName, toSkin) | 
            updateMap(displayNames, playerName, toName)) {
            refreshPlayer(playerName);
        }
    }
    
    public void removeChanges(Player player) {
        changeDisplay(player.getName(), null, null);
    }
 
    public void removeChanges(String playerName) {
        changeDisplay(playerName, null, null);
    }
    
    /**
     * Update the map with the new key-value pair.
     * @param map - the map.
     * @param key - the key of the pair.
     * @param value - the new value, or NULL to remove the pair.
     * @return TRUE if the map was updated, FALSE otherwise.
     */
    private <T, U> boolean updateMap(Map<T, U> map, T key, U value) {
        if (value == null) {
            return map.remove(key) != null;
        } else {
            return !Objects.equal(value, map.put(key, value));
        }
    }
    
    @SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
    private void refreshPlayer(String name) {
        Player player = Bukkit.getPlayer(name);
        
        if (player != null) {
            refreshPlayer(player);
        }
    }
    
    private void refreshPlayer(Player player) {
        // Refresh the displayed entity
        protocolManager.updateEntity(player, protocolManager.getEntityTrackers(player));
    }
}

please update to work on 1.8

This could be updated to use GSON

InputSupplier does not seem to exist anymore.

that class is not really good.