Is it possible to access an IB object (say, a UILabel) without declaring a IBOutlet property?

Question

I have more than 20 labels that I need to update at runtime, and I was wondering if it could be possible to access them without having to declare properties and outlets for all of them. I tried to assign a unique tag to each, and access them trhough the view in my view contoller, something like this:

 self.view.myLabel1.text = @"Some text";

But it did not work. Is there a way to accomplish this?

Thanks