Can Carrier Offset cause Image Problems
Having images of a signal is very different from having a frequency offset in the signal. Having an image means the signal spectrum is replicated at two or more places.Having a frequency offset in a signal means the spectrum is just shifted in frequency.

First let us look at it from the point of view of the innocent receiver who does not know that such a catastrophe has occurred that the offset itself is equal to the channel frequency. Simply speaking the systems would break down with IQ phase reversed.

If however we have realistic frequency offsets like that of Doppler shifts which for typical cellular frequencies in current wireless is of the order of few hundred Hz then this is usually measured at the receiver and the clock is adjusted. This offset is usually measured by correlating time domain samples after ADC in baseband, since a linear shift in frequency domain equals phase shift in time domain.