Indexing Each Subclass Of Certain Class

I have a problem where I want to give each subclass of a certain class an index number (I don't care what index numbers are given, as long as there is a one-to-one relationship between subclasses and index numbers and the index numbers don't skip). This number will be used to sort the subclasses as an intermediate step to what I want to achieve. I know I could do this:

interface Superclass {
int index();
}
class Subclass implements Superclass {
int index() {
return 0; //or 1, or 2, ...
}
}

But this quickly gets tedious when I'm looking at lots of subclasses. Plus, there's the off chance that I could mess up and assign an index twice to two different subclasses by accident. Is there a better way to do this? I read about Annotations.