diff --git a/clients/admin-ui/src/features/datastore-connections/system_portal_config/forms/ConnectorParametersForm.tsx b/clients/admin-ui/src/features/datastore-connections/system_portal_config/forms/ConnectorParametersForm.tsx
index e5925187a3..f471306391 100644
--- a/clients/admin-ui/src/features/datastore-connections/system_portal_config/forms/ConnectorParametersForm.tsx
+++ b/clients/admin-ui/src/features/datastore-connections/system_portal_config/forms/ConnectorParametersForm.tsx
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ export const ConnectorParametersForm = ({
       ).map((action) => action.toString());
 
       // @ts-ignore
-      initialValues.secrets = connectionConfig.secrets ?? {};
+      initialValues.secrets = connectionConfig.secrets ? _.cloneDeep(connectionConfig.secrets) : {};
 
       // check if we need we need to pre-process any secrets values
       // we currently only need to do this for Fides dataset references
@@ -245,8 +245,10 @@ export const ConnectorParametersForm = ({
         Object.entries(secretsSchema.properties).forEach(([key, schema]) => {
           if (schema.allOf?.[0].$ref === FIDES_DATASET_REFERENCE) {
             const datasetReference = initialValues.secrets[key];
-            initialValues.secrets[key] =
-              `${datasetReference.dataset}.${datasetReference.field}`;
+            if (datasetReference) {
+              initialValues.secrets[key] =
+                `${datasetReference.dataset}.${datasetReference.field}`;
+            }
           }
         });
       }
diff --git a/clients/admin-ui/src/types/api/models/ConnectionConfigurationResponse.ts b/clients/admin-ui/src/types/api/models/ConnectionConfigurationResponse.ts
index 581d6202cd..bc511df7fe 100644
--- a/clients/admin-ui/src/types/api/models/ConnectionConfigurationResponse.ts
+++ b/clients/admin-ui/src/types/api/models/ConnectionConfigurationResponse.ts
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ export type ConnectionConfigurationResponse = {
   last_test_timestamp?: string | null;
   last_test_succeeded?: boolean | null;
   saas_config?: SaaSConfigBase | null;
-  secrets?: null;
+  secrets?: any;
   authorized?: boolean | null;
   enabled_actions?: Array<ActionType> | null;
 };