How update the _id of one MongoDB Document?

You cannot update it. You'll have to save the document using a new _id, and then remove the old document.

// store the document in a variable
doc = db.clients.findOne({_id: ObjectId("4cc45467c55f4d2d2a000002")})

// set a new _id on the document
doc._id = ObjectId("4c8a331bda76c559ef000004")

// insert the document, using the new _id
db.clients.insert(doc)

// remove the document with the old _id
db.clients.remove({_id: ObjectId("4cc45467c55f4d2d2a000002")})

To do it for your whole collection you can also use a loop (based on Niels example):

db.status.find().forEach(function(doc){ 
    doc._id=doc.UserId; db.status_new.insert(doc);
});
db.status_new.renameCollection("status", true);

In this case UserId was the new ID I wanted to use

In case, you want to rename _id in same collection (for instance, if you want to prefix some _ids):

db.someCollection.find().snapshot().forEach(function(doc) { 
   if (doc._id.indexOf("2019:") != 0) {
       print("Processing: " + doc._id);
       var oldDocId = doc._id;
       doc._id = "2019:" + doc._id; 
       db.someCollection.insert(doc);
       db.someCollection.remove({_id: oldDocId});
   }
});

if (doc._id.indexOf("2019:") != 0) {... needed to prevent infinite loop, since forEach picks the inserted docs, even throught .snapshot() method used.