I am not able to replicate this behavior. I can enter remote view with an underground pipe already on my cursor, or select one from my hotbar after opening remote view. I can then place two underground pipe ghosts, the second of which triggers an automatic pipe placement. My cursor still has a pipe ghost on it after this and I can immediately place another pipe ghost. I confirmed this with and without underground pipes in my character inventory.
Can you give some more precise instructions to reproduce the misbehavior you're seeing? Maybe it's only when remote viewing another planet, or a certain configuration of pipes, or something else?