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> For example, is there any harm in changing where that contact us form points to?

The point could more be made: "Why not keep that URL the same?"

It's trivial to do technically, and there's no advantage to be had from moving back and forth between foo.com/contact and foo.com/contact-us. If the URL of your company's contact form gets published in a book, would that change your mind?

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Sorry I was misunderstood. I was talking about the URL where the form is submitted, not the URL of the form. For the URL of the form, it's generally desirable to keep it the same all things being equal because this doesn't break other people's links.

But where it is a form submission target, the only reason to care is if you are accepting third party form submission. But we are no longer talking about hypertext resources at that point which is my main point.

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