Full Idea
Some philosophers suspect that properties are few and far between, that there are only properties like charge, mass, spin, and so on.
Gist of Idea
Maybe the only properties are basic ones like charge, mass and spin
Source
Katherine Hawley (How Things Persist [2001], 5.1)
Book Reference
Hawley,Katherine: 'How Things Persist' [OUP 2004], p.147
A Reaction
I think properties are very sparse, and mainly consist of physical powers, but I am not sure what I think of this. It may be 'mere semantics'. Complex properties still seem to be properties. Powers combine to make properties, I suggest.