diff --git a/modules/field/field.crud.inc b/modules/field/field.crud.inc
index 8e0ff149750ac2b0d80a07212fb55f4727e4533f..d837f8aaa24193656100693475c74661fb74b534 100644
--- a/modules/field/field.crud.inc
+++ b/modules/field/field.crud.inc
@@ -239,6 +239,15 @@ function field_create_field($field) {
     throw new FieldException($message);
   }
 
+  // Disallow reserved field names. This can't prevent all field name
+  // collisions with existing object properties, but some is better
+  // than none.
+  foreach (field_info_fieldable_types() as $type => $info) {
+    if (in_array($field['field_name'], $info['object keys'])) {
+      throw new FieldException(t('Attempt to create field name %name which is reserved by entity type %type.', array('%name' => $field['field_name'], '%type' => $type)));
+    }
+  }
+
   $field += array(
     'cardinality' => 1,
     'translatable' => FALSE,
diff --git a/modules/field/field.test b/modules/field/field.test
index 04ceb0ab2f14ac71af92f5408f13ae3d7eb364d0..f99821f889dfb3b23b58e91228d67842e16b3098 100644
--- a/modules/field/field.test
+++ b/modules/field/field.test
@@ -1543,6 +1543,20 @@ class FieldCrudTestCase extends FieldTestCase {
     catch (FieldException $e) {
       $this->pass(t('Cannot create a field with a name longer than 32 characters.'));
     }
+
+    // Check that field name can not be an object key.
+    // "ftvid" is known as an object key from the "test_entity" type.
+    try {
+      $field_definition = array(
+        'type' => 'test_field',
+        'field_name' => 'ftvid',
+      );
+      $field = field_create_field($field_definition);
+      $this->fail(t('Cannot create a field bearing the name of an object key.'));
+    }
+    catch (FieldException $e) {
+      $this->pass(t('Cannot create a field bearing the name of an object key.'));
+    }
   }
 
   /**