md-select Setting a static placeholder is not working. option always has an animation up

[dhuallanca]

Bug, feature request, or proposal:

Bug

What is the expected behavior?

option always should turn off the placeholder's floating animation. According documentation It will not animate up or down.

What is the current behavior?

Placeholder animates up.

What are the steps to reproduce?

https://plnkr.co/edit/ZfOqIIUmmiT3a7wRkoRA?p=preview

What is the use-case or motivation for changing an existing behavior?

User experience, the placeholder should be static on the top.

Which versions of Angular, Material, OS, TypeScript, browsers are affected?

angular 4.4.1
material 2.0.0-beta.10

Is there anything else we should know?

the placeholder has an animation when the md-select is loading.

[josephperrott]

Repro available here

[crisbeto]

Closing due to inactivity and because the select has changed substantially since this issue was opened.