Happens very often, but I don't think 100% of the time.
When you see an item in a distance, it has the pristine texture. Then when you walk towards it, it suddenly gets the damaged / ruined texture. There is a certain distance, which is always about 10 meters, where the texture changes. Of course this only happens to damaged / badly damaged and ruined items.

I added two pictures to show at which distance it's happening.