diff --git a/connect/mirror/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/connect/mirror/MirrorMaker.java b/connect/mirror/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/connect/mirror/MirrorMaker.java
index e13873e2633e4..7ac68319bca6f 100644
--- a/connect/mirror/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/connect/mirror/MirrorMaker.java
+++ b/connect/mirror/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/connect/mirror/MirrorMaker.java
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ private void addHerder(SourceAndTarget sourceAndTarget) {
         DistributedConfig distributedConfig = new DistributedConfig(workerProps);
         String kafkaClusterId = ConnectUtils.lookupKafkaClusterId(distributedConfig);
         // Create the admin client to be shared by all backing stores for this herder
-        Map<String, Object> adminProps = new HashMap<>(config.originals());
+        Map<String, Object> adminProps = new HashMap<>(distributedConfig.originals());
         ConnectUtils.addMetricsContextProperties(adminProps, distributedConfig, kafkaClusterId);
         SharedTopicAdmin sharedAdmin = new SharedTopicAdmin(adminProps);
         KafkaOffsetBackingStore offsetBackingStore = new KafkaOffsetBackingStore(sharedAdmin);