diff --git a/pytiled_parser/parsers/tmx/properties.py b/pytiled_parser/parsers/tmx/properties.py
index 57731d25..bf74197b 100644
--- a/pytiled_parser/parsers/tmx/properties.py
+++ b/pytiled_parser/parsers/tmx/properties.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import xml.etree.ElementTree as etree
 from pathlib import Path
 
-from pytiled_parser.properties import Properties, Property, ClassProperty
+from pytiled_parser.properties import ClassProperty, Properties, Property
 from pytiled_parser.util import parse_color
 
 
@@ -14,7 +14,9 @@ def parse(raw_properties: etree.Element) -> Properties:
         if type_ == "class":
             children_nodes = raw_property.find("./properties")
             x = ClassProperty(
-                raw_property.attrib["propertytype"], parse(children_nodes) if children_nodes is not None else {})
+                raw_property.attrib["propertytype"],
+                parse(children_nodes) if children_nodes is not None else {},
+            )
             final[raw_property.attrib["name"]] = x
             continue
 
@@ -26,6 +28,8 @@ def parse(raw_properties: etree.Element) -> Properties:
             value = Path(value_)
         elif type_ == "color":
             value = parse_color(value_)
+        elif type_ == "object":
+            value = int(value_)
         elif type_ == "int":
             value = round(float(value_))
         elif type_ == "float":
diff --git a/tests/test_properties_tmx.py b/tests/test_properties_tmx.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..13912a36
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_properties_tmx.py
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+import xml.etree.ElementTree as etree
+
+import pytest
+
+from pytiled_parser import parse_map
+from pytiled_parser.layer import ObjectLayer
+from pytiled_parser.parsers.json.properties import parse as parse_json
+from pytiled_parser.parsers.tmx.properties import parse as parse_tmx
+from pytiled_parser.properties import ClassProperty
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("object_id", [0, 1, 42, 2147483647])
+def test_object_reference_ids(object_id):
+    properties = etree.fromstring(
+        '<properties><property name="target" type="object" '
+        f'value="{object_id}"/></properties>'
+    )
+    parsed = parse_tmx(properties)
+    raw_property = {"name": "target", "type": "object", "value": object_id}
+    expected = parse_json([raw_property])
+    assert parsed == expected
+    assert type(parsed["target"]) is int
+
+
+def test_object_reference_in_class():
+    properties = etree.fromstring(
+        '<properties><property name="spawn" type="class" propertytype="Spawn">'
+        '<properties><property name="target" type="object" value="42"/>'
+        "</properties></property></properties>"
+    )
+    parsed = parse_tmx(properties)["spawn"]
+    assert isinstance(parsed, ClassProperty)
+    assert parsed.propertytype == "Spawn"
+    assert parsed["target"] == 42
+
+
+def test_map_object_reference_lookup(tmp_path):
+    map_file = tmp_path / "objects.tmx"
+    map_file.write_text(
+        '<map version="1.10" tiledversion="1.10.2" orientation="orthogonal" '
+        'renderorder="right-down" width="1" height="1" tilewidth="16" '
+        'tileheight="16" infinite="0" nextlayerid="2" nextobjectid="3">'
+        '<objectgroup id="1" name="objects"><object id="1" x="0" y="0">'
+        '<properties><property name="target" type="object" value="2"/>'
+        '<property name="unset" type="object" value="0"/></properties>'
+        '</object><object id="2" x="16" y="0"/></objectgroup></map>',
+        encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    layer = parse_map(map_file).layers[0]
+    assert isinstance(layer, ObjectLayer)
+    source, target = layer.tiled_objects
+    objects_by_id = {obj.id: obj for obj in layer.tiled_objects}
+    assert objects_by_id[source.properties["target"]] is target
+    assert source.properties["unset"] == 0