Can material design give a unique identity to my application?

Can material design be personalized in a way that gives identity to the app? what I know about MDC (Material Design Components, an acronym I've just known!) is that it provides us with a bunch of ready-to-use controls, but doesn't this make all apps look like each other, with no different identity? or Material design is a general UI/UX concept that can embrace any idea and UI type? I'm interesting in mobile applications design.