It's the . special form that makes the difference. In (. System (getProperty)), the dot interprets System as a class and looks for a static method (at read/compile time). With (identity System), System resolves to a value, a Class object, returned by identity, then your outside dot looks for a getProperty instance method on that object(fallback to reflection, which fails) - it's like writing System.class.getProperty in java. There is no syntax for clojure to lookup a static method on a dynamically resolved class object because that is inherently reflection - dot is not about reflection, though it will do it as a last resort.
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