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Such names seem more appropriate for them, and, interestingly, the slaves themselves often favor such names. - (Vagabonds of Gor, Chapter 1, Sentence #149)

For example, a free woman named, say, 'Ariadne' or 'Philomela', would not be pleased to encounter, or be served by, a slave with the same name. To be sure, in one sense the names are different, as the free woman has the name in her own right as a legal person and the slave has the name in virtue of her master's right, to put it on her if he pleases, like an ankle ring or collar. My own preference in these matters is to favor, on the whole, like most Goreans, simpler, shorter names for slaves, names which, like the collar, help to remind them that they are slaves. Such names seem more appropriate for them, and, interestingly, the slaves themselves often favor such names. They think them suitable, and respond well to them. Such names seem to them identificatory, and leave them in no doubt as to their condition and status. It seems to them then fitting that one who bears such a name should be a slave, should serve, should kneel, should fear the whip, and should be such, expectedly, as to squirm and thrash in the master's chains, and lift their bodies, and plead for a continuation of his attentions. - (Vagabonds of Gor)