It has nothing to do with the anemone that they're in. It's the quality of breeding stock, water parameters and food.
For example, right now I have baby ORA Black Ice Clowns. There were some people complaining that they're not changing completely black and white, others were getting it to happen within a few weeks of owning them. Mine changed immediately, but a friend of mine who had a pair from the same batch couldn't get his to fully change. I started doing some research into it and found that people who were seeing a change/quicker change had a higher salinity, and were feeding better foods. I was feeding my clowns Emerald Entree, PE Mysis both soaked in VitaChem and live Mysis and my salinity was 1.025 constant. They're also in a hosting BTA. My friend only fed flake and occasionally Brine shrimp and kept the salinity at 1.021. The more I looked into it, the more I found it to be true.