get_properties() times out and crashes

I am evaluating autopilot for GTK programs (so this might be an autopilot-gtk bug). I have this simple test:

$ cat autopilot_tests/test_evince.py
from autopilot.testcase import AutopilotTestCase
from autopilot.introspection.gtk import GtkIntrospectionTestMixin

class Evince(AutopilotTestCase, GtkIntrospectionTestMixin):
    def setUp(self):
        super(Evince, self).setUp()
        self.application = self.launch_test_application('evince')

    def test_open(self):
        print '---- children ----'
        print self.application.get_children()
        print '---- child 0 ----'
        print dir(self.application.get_children()[0])
        print '---- child 0 props ----'
        print self.application.get_children()[0].get_properties()

        self.keyboard.press_and_release('Ctrl+o')

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If I disable the get_properties() call, it works; evince is started and the file open dialog opens. But with the get_properties() call it just hangs, and eventually crashes with

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/martin/ubuntu/tmp/autopilot_tests/test_evince.py", line 15, in test_open
    print self.application.get_children()[0].get_properties()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/autopilot/introspection/dbus.py", line 240, in get_children
    state_dicts = self.get_state_by_path(query)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/autopilot/introspection/dbus.py", line 299, in get_state_by_path
    ).GetState(piece)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 70, in __call__
    return self._proxy_method(*args, **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 145, in __call__
    **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 651, in call_blocking
    message, timeout)
DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.