diff --git a/lib/libzfs/libzfs_sendrecv.c b/lib/libzfs/libzfs_sendrecv.c
index 902512f997cc..07c51f1c47f9 100644
--- a/lib/libzfs/libzfs_sendrecv.c
+++ b/lib/libzfs/libzfs_sendrecv.c
@@ -2783,8 +2783,6 @@ parse_overrides(libzfs_handle_t *hdl, nvlist_t *props, nvlist_t *poprops,
 		goto error;
 	}
 
-	/* TODO: check properties that cannot be received */
-
 	/* second pass: process "-o" properties */
 	nvp = NULL;
 	while ((nvp = nvlist_next_nvpair(nvl_voprops, nvp)) != NULL) {
@@ -3836,6 +3834,50 @@ zfs_receive_one(libzfs_handle_t *hdl, int infd, const char *tosnap,
 	return (err);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Check properties we were asked to override (both -o|-x)
+ */
+static int
+zfs_receive_checkprops(libzfs_handle_t *hdl, nvlist_t *props,
+    const char *errbuf)
+{
+	nvpair_t *nvp;
+	int err = 0;
+	const char *name;
+
+	nvp = NULL;
+	while ((nvp = nvlist_next_nvpair(props, nvp)) != NULL && err == 0) {
+		zfs_prop_t prop;
+		name = nvpair_name(nvp);
+
+		prop = zfs_name_to_prop(name);
+		if (prop == ZPROP_INVAL)
+			continue;
+		/*
+		 * "origin" is readonly but is used to receive datasets as
+		 * clones so we don't raise an error here
+		 */
+		if (prop == ZFS_PROP_ORIGIN)
+			continue;
+
+		// cannot override readonly properties
+		if (zfs_prop_readonly(prop) == B_TRUE) {
+			zfs_error_aux(hdl, dgettext(TEXT_DOMAIN,
+			    "cannot override received property '%s'"), name);
+			err = 1;
+		}
+		// also cannot override specific settable properties
+		if (prop == ZFS_PROP_VERSION ||
+		    prop == ZFS_PROP_VOLSIZE) {
+			zfs_error_aux(hdl, dgettext(TEXT_DOMAIN,
+			    "cannot override received property '%s'"), name);
+			err = 1;
+		}
+	}
+
+	return (err);
+}
+
 static int
 zfs_receive_impl(libzfs_handle_t *hdl, const char *tosnap,
     const char *originsnap, recvflags_t *flags, int infd, const char *sendfs,
@@ -3853,6 +3895,11 @@ zfs_receive_impl(libzfs_handle_t *hdl, const char *tosnap,
 	(void) snprintf(errbuf, sizeof (errbuf), dgettext(TEXT_DOMAIN,
 	    "cannot receive"));
 
+	/* check properties that cannot be received */
+	if (zfs_receive_checkprops(hdl, override_props, errbuf) != 0) {
+		return (zfs_error(hdl, EZFS_BADPROP, errbuf));
+	}
+
 	if (flags->isprefix &&
 	    !zfs_dataset_exists(hdl, tosnap, ZFS_TYPE_DATASET)) {
 		zfs_error_aux(hdl, dgettext(TEXT_DOMAIN, "specified fs "
diff --git a/tests/zfs-tests/tests/functional/cli_root/zfs_receive/zfs_receive_014_pos.ksh b/tests/zfs-tests/tests/functional/cli_root/zfs_receive/zfs_receive_014_pos.ksh
index 8287cfa8c432..f44442627bde 100755
--- a/tests/zfs-tests/tests/functional/cli_root/zfs_receive/zfs_receive_014_pos.ksh
+++ b/tests/zfs-tests/tests/functional/cli_root/zfs_receive/zfs_receive_014_pos.ksh
@@ -148,6 +148,8 @@ log_mustnot eval "$ZFS recv $dest -x atime=off < $streamfile_full"
 log_mustnot eval "$ZFS recv $dest -o atime=off -x atime < $streamfile_full"
 log_mustnot eval "$ZFS recv $dest -o atime=off -o atime=on < $streamfile_full"
 log_mustnot eval "$ZFS recv $dest -x atime -x atime < $streamfile_full"
+log_mustnot eval "$ZFS recv $dest -o version=1 < $streamfile_full"
+log_mustnot eval "$ZFS recv $dest -x normalization < $streamfile_full"
 
 #	5.2 Verify -o property=value works on streams without properties.
 log_must eval "$ZFS recv -o compression=on -o '$userprop:dest1'='$userval' "\