That would not work so easily : striped objects, even if having a single stripe, need to have some extra attributes set (object_size, stripe_unit, stripe_count, size, status) that are not present for regular objects.
You may say that when these attributes are absent, we can deduce them (e.g. stripe_count = 1) but I believe that it would make things really confusing to have striped objects looking like regular ones. What if someone opens one as a regular (non striped) object and modifies it ?
What do other people think ?