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Shepards will move the either image by the average of all the moves given.
That is just what it does.
See the first few examples in IM examples, Shepards Distortion.
Yes this is command line, but the principles and problems looked at are the same for all API's http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/distorts/#shepards
To combat this add a lot of 'fixed' points that don't move, or perhaps move slightly in the oppisite direction.