diff --git a/src/core/device.c b/src/core/device.c
index 960f403718..b006add405 100644
--- a/src/core/device.c
+++ b/src/core/device.c
@@ -631,7 +631,7 @@ static int device_process_new(Manager *m, sd_device *dev) {
                 if (r == -ENOMEM)
                         return log_oom();
                 if (r < 0)
-                        return log_device_warning_errno(dev, r, "Failed to add parse SYSTEMD_ALIAS property: %m");
+                        return log_device_warning_errno(dev, r, "Failed to parse SYSTEMD_ALIAS property: %m");
 
                 if (!path_is_absolute(word))
                         log_device_warning(dev, "SYSTEMD_ALIAS is not an absolute path, ignoring: %s", word);
diff --git a/src/libsystemd/sd-device/device-private.c b/src/libsystemd/sd-device/device-private.c
index 36beb3e7df..2daf4ddd57 100644
--- a/src/libsystemd/sd-device/device-private.c
+++ b/src/libsystemd/sd-device/device-private.c
@@ -702,13 +702,24 @@ int device_new_from_stat_rdev(sd_device **ret, const struct stat *st) {
 
 int device_copy_properties(sd_device *device_dst, sd_device *device_src) {
         const char *property, *value;
+        Iterator i;
         int r;
 
         assert(device_dst);
         assert(device_src);
 
-        FOREACH_DEVICE_PROPERTY(device_src, property, value) {
-                r = device_add_property(device_dst, property, value);
+        r = device_properties_prepare(device_src);
+        if (r < 0)
+                return r;
+
+        ORDERED_HASHMAP_FOREACH_KEY(property, value, device_src->properties_db, i) {
+                r = device_add_property_aux(device_dst, property, value, true);
+                if (r < 0)
+                        return r;
+        }
+
+        ORDERED_HASHMAP_FOREACH_KEY(property, value, device_src->properties, i) {
+                r = device_add_property_aux(device_dst, property, value, false);
                 if (r < 0)
                         return r;
         }
diff --git a/src/libsystemd/sd-device/device-private.h b/src/libsystemd/sd-device/device-private.h
index 56558b38c6..062bfd651c 100644
--- a/src/libsystemd/sd-device/device-private.h
+++ b/src/libsystemd/sd-device/device-private.h
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ uint64_t device_get_properties_generation(sd_device *device);
 uint64_t device_get_tags_generation(sd_device *device);
 uint64_t device_get_devlinks_generation(sd_device *device);
 
+int device_properties_prepare(sd_device *device);
 int device_get_properties_nulstr(sd_device *device, const uint8_t **nulstr, size_t *len);
 int device_get_properties_strv(sd_device *device, char ***strv);
 
diff --git a/src/libsystemd/sd-device/sd-device.c b/src/libsystemd/sd-device/sd-device.c
index b8a5dcc1a6..2a69f2e94b 100644
--- a/src/libsystemd/sd-device/sd-device.c
+++ b/src/libsystemd/sd-device/sd-device.c
@@ -1453,7 +1453,7 @@ _public_ const char *sd_device_get_devlink_next(sd_device *device) {
         return v;
 }
 
-static int device_properties_prepare(sd_device *device) {
+int device_properties_prepare(sd_device *device) {
         int r;
 
         assert(device);