Can I swop an icon in the Dock?

Okay, a bit unlikely, but a good icon is a pleasing thing.
For ages I've used a third party app with a great icon but now I've changed to a new equivalent — it does a better job but has a really bad icon.
Can I swop icons with Terminal or otherwise modify one?

Great, baltwo! I'd really like to do this but need a little more help, please.
For starters, I took a screenshot of the old Dock icon that I want to re-use with Snapz Pro X and got a 70 KB 63 x 65 RGB .tiff image. Then I do as you say, "Select the app, CMD+I, click on the icon," but find I can't paste in the new image.
Maybe it's this particular app -- the icon I want to replace is for Snapheal and to start it up, one drags an image onto its icon in the dock. So when I try to paste in the new image, the app starts up.
Thanks . . . fortes

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