Illustrator wont let me recolour certain objects bug

I have been having this issue for a while on various different versions of illustrator.

There seems to be a bug where I am not able to recolour certain objects without having to double click and then double click again and then one more time to open the objects up (even though i did not group these) and only then can I re-colour, I think it usually happens on certain objects when make a copy of them. It's just behaving very strange and it's making it very difficult to get anything done!

Help with this would be much appreciated. I have attached a video to help Illustrate the issue.