As far as I can tell, there are no similar measures in place with Mercury protocol.
That seems to be the case. The fraud can be trivially proven, which would obviously result in the wallet being labelled a scam and the developers being investigated, but there is no on-chain punishment (at least, not at the moment). So from that point of view it works the same as any centralized exchange or service, any mixer, or any non-open source wallet or piece of software - reputation. Not ideal, but I'd still be willing to trust them with small amounts of coins at a time to use their service in due course, once they've proven themselves.