There's one flaw in your brilliant plan: Smaug notices the liquid gold and soaks you in it too, subjecting you to my fate, and burying you in his massive pile of coins. Before I'm buried under that same pile, however, I teleport out of the statue, and Smaug and I are on good terms, so he just ignores me and I get my hill back, 100% free of liquid gold.

MY HILL!!!