Any person who injures, impairs, or destroys, or who renders difficult, uncertain, or impossible of identification, any property knowing the same to be subject to a lien, as provided in this chapter, without the express consent of the person entitled to such lien, shall be liable to the lien holder for damages to the amount secured by the lien, which sum may be recovered by an action against such person, without bringing the suit as provided in section 589 of this title. In all such actions the principal debtor shall be made a codefendant.