When blocks that obey gravity land on a piston, they break and drop as items. This occurs to both kinds of pistons and all sides except sticky piston faces. If this is not a bug and is working as intended, please change this. It makes absolutely no sense as to why this is happening.
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However, this issue has been closed as a Duplicate of https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MCPE-18900
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