Changing Model of CreateView and form

Hi all, I'd like to be able to have one CreateView that can work for a handful of models I have. Based on this portion of the documentation:

"These generic views will automatically create a `ModelForm`, so long as they can work out which model class to use"

I believe if I pass the right model to a class inheriting CreateView, I'll get a form to use for that model. With this in mind, is it possible to change the model a view references when requested? According to the documentation, I should be able to use get_object() or get the queryset, but both of those take me to SingleObjectMixin, which I don't think is used in CreateView. Am I attempting something impossible, or am I missing a key detail?

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