Stars transform into SDURFs when Attraction Shield evaporates

In NiGHTs stages where you have an Attraction Shield, when you allow the stars to follow you and you jump into the water without those stars getting collected, they transform in SDURFs.

Are you sure that it's the stars, or might it be the chips?

I stopped the GIF a bit early, almost all the chips are in the pool. In the gif you can see one fly right by as the shield dissipates.

I would actually like to know how this bug works. It could make for a funky gimmick, and not necessarily be for turning stuff into badniks.

If I'm reading the code correctly (please correct me if I'm incorrect): For objects being dragged by an attraction shield, the reactiontime variable is used to decide what it should turn into if an attraction shield dissipates. For example, MT_RING's reactiontime is set to MT_FLINGRING. For the Stars, the reactiontime variable was set to 8, which apparently translates to a SDURF.