SSDT Drop and Recreate Tables when nothing has changed

We have a Visual Studio Database Project consisting of about 129 Tables. It is the primary database for our Internal Web Based CRM/Call Centre product, which is still under active development. We use the SSDT Publish from within VS to deploy to instances as changes are made. We develop locally via SQL Express (2016), also have a LAB environment for performance and load tests running SQL 2014, a UAT environment running 2012 and finally a deploy to production which is running SQL 2016. All environments (Except Production) the script generated on publish is very good, only does the changes. The production script does a massive amount more work. Seems to drop and recreate a lot more tables, that I know have not changed (37 tables last deploy). Some of these tables have rows in the millions, and the whole publish is taking upwards of 25mins. If I repeat the publish to production, it again drops and recreates 37 tables. The production DB does have replication which I have to disable before deployments (unsure if that's a factor). I don't understand what the Production publish always wants to drop and recreate tables even though nothing has changed. I'm hoping to get some advice as to where to look to establish why SSDT thinks these need to be re-created. using Visual Studio Professional 2017 V 15.5.5 and SSDT 15.1