How to imitate setting a property in the gradle.properties file via custom plugin

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I am writing a custom Gradle plugin in Java. Internally it applies the kotlin-gradle-plugin to the consuming project.

plugins {
    id 'java-gradle-plugin'
}

dependencies {
    implementation "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:1.4.10"
}

public class CustomPlugin implements Plugin<Project> {

    @Override
    public void apply(@NotNull Project project) {
        project.getPluginManager().apply(KotlinPluginWrapper.class);
    }
}

Kotlin plugin, by default, adds a dependency on Kotlin’s standard library, and to disable that behavior, one needs to add the following to the gradle.properties file:

kotlin.stdlib.default.dependency=false

Is there a way to simulate the presence of such property in the custom plugin itself, to save the end user the trouble of adding the above mentioned line into the gradle.properties file?