I think I'd like inanimate TFs more if so many people didn't just draw a woman, color it all grey, and say "Ok, she's turned to stone lol." No effort, no process, it's just lazy. Of course, the reverse to this is people who just put a pair of eyes on an otherwise ordinary object and call it a day.
Even though she rarely does things sequentially or that show the process midway, Naga has a great collection of inanimate tfs because she actually makes the people into objects, and they look like they've been TFed.