We have to be clear what we are talking about here. The word "laminate", used to describe the stuff from which a ukulele is made, is applied to both traditional plywood and to HPL - High Pressure Laminate. They are very different materials.
Traditional plywood is made from (usually) three thin slices of wood, while HPL might have little or no wood content.
Both can be used to make good ukuleles but finishing them with a representation of, say, koa or mahogany will not make them sound like those tonewoods.
FWIW I recently bought two sopranos direct from China. One is said to be traditional plywood with koa outer facing, the other is HPL tricked up to look like mahogany. The former cost twice as much as the latter, and both look very convincing, but I prefer the sound of the cheaper HPL uke.
John Colter