diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 95b74da5445..34097ec57f3 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1863,7 +1863,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "icu_locid_transform",
  "icu_properties_data",
  "icu_provider",
- "icu_testdata",
  "serde",
  "tinystr",
  "unicode-bidi",
diff --git a/components/properties/Cargo.toml b/components/properties/Cargo.toml
index 13bc89004ea..4c281acd25e 100644
--- a/components/properties/Cargo.toml
+++ b/components/properties/Cargo.toml
@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ icu_locid_transform = { version = "1.2.0", path = "../../components/locid_transf
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 icu = { path = "../icu", default-features = false }
-icu_testdata = { path = "../../provider/testdata", default-features = false, features = ["icu_properties", "icu_locid_transform"] }
 
 [features]
 std = ["icu_collections/std", "icu_provider/std"]
diff --git a/components/properties/src/bidi_data.rs b/components/properties/src/bidi_data.rs
index 00748f4d886..b25ff3dc152 100644
--- a/components/properties/src/bidi_data.rs
+++ b/components/properties/src/bidi_data.rs
@@ -159,6 +159,15 @@ impl<'a> BidiAuxiliaryPropertiesBorrowed<'a> {
     }
 }
 
+impl BidiAuxiliaryPropertiesBorrowed<'static> {
+    /// Cheaply converts a `BidiAuxiliaryPropertiesBorrowed<'static>` into a `BidiAuxiliaryProperties`.
+    pub fn static_to_owned(self) -> BidiAuxiliaryProperties {
+        BidiAuxiliaryProperties {
+            data: DataPayload::from_static_ref(self.data),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 /// Returns a [`BidiAuxiliaryPropertiesV1`] struct that represents the data for certain
 /// Bidi properties.
 ///
diff --git a/components/properties/src/maps.rs b/components/properties/src/maps.rs
index 262f1d606c7..9d8f465e7e5 100644
--- a/components/properties/src/maps.rs
+++ b/components/properties/src/maps.rs
@@ -65,9 +65,7 @@ impl<T: TrieValue> CodePointMapData<T> {
     /// ```
     /// use icu::properties::{maps, GeneralCategory};
     ///
-    /// let data =
-    ///     maps::load_general_category(&icu_testdata::unstable())
-    ///         .expect("The data should be valid");
+    /// let data = maps::general_category().static_to_owned();
     ///
     /// let gc = data.try_into_converted::<u8>().unwrap();
     /// let gc = gc.as_borrowed();