diff --git a/openpype/hosts/substancepainter/plugins/publish/collect_textureset_images.py b/openpype/hosts/substancepainter/plugins/publish/collect_textureset_images.py
index d11abd1019..316f72509e 100644
--- a/openpype/hosts/substancepainter/plugins/publish/collect_textureset_images.py
+++ b/openpype/hosts/substancepainter/plugins/publish/collect_textureset_images.py
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ class CollectTextureSet(pyblish.api.InstancePlugin):
         # Clone the instance
         image_instance = context.create_instance(image_subset)
         image_instance[:] = instance[:]
-        image_instance.data.update(copy.deepcopy(instance.data))
+        image_instance.data.update(copy.deepcopy(dict(instance.data)))
         image_instance.data["name"] = image_subset
         image_instance.data["label"] = image_subset
         image_instance.data["subset"] = image_subset