When switching from Creative to Survival and then activating a Nether Reactor,and after I picked up the items,and the Reactor turns off,I switched back to title and went to the same world(I maybe did that).Then, when I looked at the Hotbar,some icons were changed.It doesn't affect the held item in Steve's hand and the icon from my inventory.
Since you are using outside sources to change the gamemode, this cannot be a valid bug report.