diff --git a/extensions/theme-seti/build/update-icon-theme.js b/extensions/theme-seti/build/update-icon-theme.js
index c55af7ab7fe..ab2a1c81e81 100644
--- a/extensions/theme-seti/build/update-icon-theme.js
+++ b/extensions/theme-seti/build/update-icon-theme.js
@@ -47,7 +47,11 @@ const inheritIconFromLanguage = {
 	"postcss": 'css',
 	"django-html": 'html',
 	"blade": 'php'
-}
+};
+
+const ignoreExtAssociation = {
+	"properties": true
+};
 
 const FROM_DISK = true; // set to true to take content from a repo checked out next to the vscode repo
 
@@ -399,7 +403,7 @@ exports.update = function () {
 					if (!nonBuiltInLanguages[lang] && !inheritIconFromLanguage[lang]) {
 						for (let i2 = 0; i2 < exts.length; i2++) {
 							// remove the extension association, unless it is different from the preferred
-							if (ext2Def[exts[i2]] === preferredDef) {
+							if (ext2Def[exts[i2]] === preferredDef || ignoreExtAssociation[exts[i2]]) {
 								delete ext2Def[exts[i2]];
 							}
 						}
diff --git a/extensions/theme-seti/icons/vs-seti-icon-theme.json b/extensions/theme-seti/icons/vs-seti-icon-theme.json
index b1044baf1cb..f5b78299680 100644
--- a/extensions/theme-seti/icons/vs-seti-icon-theme.json
+++ b/extensions/theme-seti/icons/vs-seti-icon-theme.json
@@ -1622,7 +1622,6 @@
 		"jade": "_jade",
 		"class": "_java_1",
 		"classpath": "_java",
-		"properties": "_java",
 		"js.map": "_javascript",
 		"spec.js": "_javascript_1",
 		"test.js": "_javascript_1",
@@ -2025,7 +2024,6 @@
 			"jade": "_jade_light",
 			"class": "_java_1_light",
 			"classpath": "_java_light",
-			"properties": "_java_light",
 			"js.map": "_javascript_light",
 			"spec.js": "_javascript_1_light",
 			"test.js": "_javascript_1_light",