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In Pathfinder, Wizards can take the Admixture school, which lets them switch elemental damage types. Some Sorcerer bloodlines (e.g. Elemental Acid bloodline) let you convert into a particular type.
What other options are there? In particular, are there any options available to either a Cleric or an Oracle? (Feats, traits, items, etc.)
I can think of only five ways to change the elemental subtype of a spell dealing energy damage :
There's this feat ;
Elemental Spell (Metamagic)
You can manipulate the elemental nature of your spells.
Benefit: Choose one energy type: acid, cold, electricity, or fire. You may replace a spell’s normal damage with that energy type or split the spell’s damage, so that half is of that energy type and half is of its normal type.
Level Increase: +1 (an elemental spell uses up a spell slot one level higher than the spell’s actual level.)
Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. Each time you must choose a different energy type.
I'd like to add, expanding on KRyan's comment to Can Canbek's answer, that these various rules are used to let a spellcaster change a spell's energy damage type some of the time. A djinn-blooded sorcerer, for instance, can cast a fireball normally one time, or change it to an electricity ball another.
However, if you want a cold-themed character, for instance, just talk to your GM about taking standard fire- or electricity-based spells and reskinning them as cold based spells. This wouldn't require a feat or character option since you're not being given the versatility and flexibility of changing a spell's energy, just inventing a new spell - chill wave, for instance, that happens to be identical to the relevant fire spell (say, burning hands) but for frost.
