Pdf of samples from a distribution after tossing samples out at random

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Suppose I have some probability distribution with density function $p(x)$ and I draw $n$ samples from it. Then, I randomly toss out some fraction of those samples $k$ and look at the remaining samples.

Can I characterize the remaining samples? As $n\rightarrow\infty$, is there a pdf that describes them? My intuition is that probability density would move toward the tails.

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There's no reason for the pdf of the selected samples to be different than the original n samples if the initial n samples were taken randomly and the k samples that were removed were also selected randomly. It is equivalent to having taken n-k samples initially.