This capability is not provided. There are simply too many possible variants that would have to be provided to meet all needs. Can the object only be resized in one dimension, or both? Relative to the objects center, or some other fixed point? In item coordinates, scene coordinates, view coordinates or some other system? And that's just for starters.
It isn't difficult to implement such a capability, though. Just override the appropriate mouse events on the item.
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