The following is just observation / speculation / guessing on my part:
Whenever I set-up to use Audio Snap I resave my project (working mix) with a different name and then depending on what I am doing I either bounce to track and copy and paste that rendered track back into my working mix or export and then import the track back into my working mix. Audio Snap, properly used is a very powerful tool but it gives me anxiety.
I wouldn't bounce to clip, I would bounce to track so I could listen to the render and then make changes and re-render if necessary.
If by bouncing to clip it is truly rendering and you are still getting artifacts, then my guess is that something else is going on ... it is not the bounce itself but how things are moved around.
Most of my experience is on drum tracks so here is an example from my experience that is probably not relevant but I will throw it out there. Say for example I want to quantize a track and inadvertently ascribe transient markers to a series of 16th notes but set the resolution to 8th notes. When I render, Audio Snap will force the 16th notes to line up where the 8th notes should happen and squish the notes together in an unmusical way.
The point is, the surrounding notes will influence the quality of your result and can result in weird sounding effects.
Other things that can cause weird effects are stretching a note too far or multiple renderings (that is why I bounce to track ... each evaluation is an independent rendering and when I am done the resulting track has only been rendered one time with Audio Snap).