No Catholic believes statues have any power whatsoever, hence no Catholic prays to statues. So you're barking up he wrong tree - how many times do you have to be told? I suspect you're the sort of person whose pride is such that you have a great deal of trouble accepting that you're wrong - either that or you've got a serious learning difficulty of some kind. Oh, the other possibility is you have no love of the truth - this would explain your stiff-necked animus towards God's Church.
Surely you can understand how even Catholics can go astray, right? If the Catholic catechism endorses praying to Mary, then how can they not be seen when doing so in front of a statue of Mary as praying to her?
From the Catholic catechism: from this link:
Catechism of the Catholic Church - The way of prayer
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2676 This twofold movement of prayer to Mary has found a privileged expression in the
Ave Maria:
Hail Mary [or Rejoice, Mary]: the greeting of the angel Gabriel opens this prayer. It is God himself who, through his angel as intermediary, greets Mary. Our prayer dares to take up this greeting to Mary with the regard God had for the lowliness of his humble servant and to exult in the joy he finds in her.30
Full of grace, the Lord is with thee: These two phrases of the angel's greeting shed light on one another. Mary is full of grace because the Lord is with her. The grace with which she is filled is the presence of him who is the source of all grace. "Rejoice . . . O Daughter of Jerusalem . . . the Lord your God is in your midst."31 Mary, in whom the Lord himself has just made his dwelling, is the daughter of Zion in person, the ark of the covenant, the place where the glory of the Lord dwells. She is "the dwelling of God . . . with men."32 Full of grace, Mary is wholly given over to him who has come to dwell in her and whom she is about to give to the world.
Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. After the angel's greeting, we make Elizabeth's greeting our own. "Filled with the Holy Spirit," Elizabeth is the first in the long succession of generations who have called Mary "blessed."33 "Blessed is she who believed. . . . "34 Mary is "blessed among women" because she believed in the fulfillment of the Lord's word. Abraham. because of his faith, became a blessing for all the nations of the earth.35 Mary, because of her faith, became the mother of believers, through whom all nations of the earth receive him who is God's own blessing: Jesus, the "fruit of thy womb."
2677 Holy Mary, Mother of God: With Elizabeth we marvel, "And why is this granted me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?"36 Because she gives us Jesus, her son, Mary is Mother of God and our mother; we can entrust all our cares and petitions to her: she prays for us as she prayed for herself: "Let it be to me according to your word."37 By entrusting ourselves to her prayer, we abandon ourselves to the will of God together with her: "Thy will be done."
Pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death: By asking Mary to pray for us, we acknowledge ourselves to be poor sinners and we address ourselves to the "Mother of Mercy," the All-Holy One. We give ourselves over to her now, in the Today of our lives. And our trust broadens further, already at the present moment, to surrender "the hour of our death" wholly to her care. May she be there as she was at her son's death on the cross. May she welcome us as our mother at the hour of our passing38 to lead us to her son, Jesus, in paradise. " ~~~
Now if you do not see anything wrong with praying to Mary even though only God can answer prayers and only God can be with us always... I am not sure you can correct any Catholic when they pray to Mary in front of a statue of Mary in order to abstain from that appearance of evil.
As it is, scripture limits only one way to come to God the Father by and only One Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, and thus only Jesus answers prayers so that the Father may be glorified in the Son for answers to prayers with no credit going to any one else.
1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me... 13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
That means praying to the Holy Spirit is out. It is not a practice taught by scripture at all. All invitations points to the Son in coming to God the Father for anything. The Holy Spirit is God but serves as the Comforter by dwelling within us; only Jesus Christ is at that throne of grace for it is by Him, we can pray to God the Father by which is in according to the will of God about Jesus Christ being the only Mediator between God and men.
Matthew 28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.... 20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
Scripture does not teach that Mary has any power nor was there any promise given for her to be with us always nor to intercede for us once she had passed on because she is not God.