Bernhard Schussek has posted a tutorial on his Webmozart.io site talking about the use of value objects in Symfony forms. By nature value objects don't allow the use of "setters" to assign/change values but he shows how to use a custom data mapper to work around the problem.

Many times, Symfony developers wonder how to make a form work with value objects. For example, think of a Money object with two fields $amount and $currency. [...] Can you write a form type for this class without adding the methods setAmount() and setCurrency()? In this post, I will show you how.

He starts with a bit of an overview on what value objects are and how the concept of immutability comes into play. He shows examples of potential issues if setters are allowed to change data and what should be done when a value change is actually needed. He then gets into the heart of the matter, integrating the forms handling with simple value objects. He goes through building a simple form and the use of the empty_data option to create a new value object with the form values. This works fine but breaks down if you need to update an object. Instead he creates a custom data mapper that sets up two methods, mapDataToForms and mapFormsToData, that allow for both interactions to work correctly.