Let's first analyze the grammatical example necesse est tibi [PRO esse placidum], where PRO is often taken as the elliptical PROnominal subject of infinitival clauses. The accusative case of the subject complement of the infinitival clause (placidum) is expected tocan be licensed in this example since theclaimed to receive accusative case offrom the elliptical subject of the infinitive (i.e. PRO is licensed internally), which is internally marked with the accusative case: i.e. no external licenser is needed for the accusative case in infinitival clauses like Necesse est [me abire] or Dicitur [te esse bonum], where the accusative case is licensed internallynot assigned by the matrix verb (see this related question for the tricky but important difference between "internal" vs. "external" licensing of the accusative case of the subject in Accusativus cum infinitivoInfinitivo clauses). So, to put it shortly, placidum can be claimed to receive accusative case from the elliptical subject ofCf. also the infinitive (i.e.control structure with PRO and its dative controller (tibi), which is also internallynecesse est tibi [PRO esse placidum] marked with the accusative casemore direct AcI structure necesse est [te esse placidum].
Finally, your interesting example necesse est tibi esse placidus is expected to be ungrammatical since the nominative case of placidus cannot be licensed in this impersonal context: i.e. note that there is no explicit nor implicit nominative constituent in the main clause that could transfer this case to the elliptical subject of the subordinate clause and then to the subject complement placidus. In this sense it can be useful to compare this ungrammatical impersonal construction *necesse est tibi esse placidus with the grammatical non-impersonal one Homerus caecus esse traditur, where the nominative case of the subject complement in the infinitival clause (caecus) is externally licensed by the nominative case of the grammatical subject of the main clause (Homerus). Cf. also the personal construction Homerus caecus esse traditur (where the nominative case of caecus is licensed externally by Homerus) with the impersonal construction Homerum caecum esse traditur (where the accusative case of caecum (and Homerum) is licensed internally). For related descriptive discussion, see here and here, i.a.