painting a block by right clicking with another

I'm creating a chess mod, with block size pieces, and instead of making several sets made with set textures, how would I go about making it so that if you right click the chess piece with any block, it applies that texture to the chess piece. kind of like painted blocks from Ender IO, or the carpenters block mod. I'm thinking if It could be done through an NBT tag it would keep the texture when broken which would be pretty cool. I might figure it out myself but im not that confident in my coding capabilities.