Can you specify what exactly happens? A video would help a lot.
Did you make sure to follow the documentation? I'm unsure which rotation you are speaking of, for the one along the surface normal, see:
https://cookiebadger.github.io/assetplacer-docs/painting_orienting.html
for rotating an asset and storing the rotation for next item that will be placed, see:
https://cookiebadger.github.io/assetplacer-docs/placing_assets.html