Currently you cannot really use the qmake properties with QtCreator in Qt For Device Creation product.

The problem is when qmake properties are used the binary is deployed to the host sysroot path in the target device.

This causes that any of the components build from the Qt sources are deployed to the completely wrong directories.

For example following target path:
target.path = $$[QT_INSTALL_EXAMPLES]/quickcontrols2/chattutorial/chapter1-settingup
INSTALLS += target

Is deployed to the following directory:
15:33:25: Starting process. Complete command line is '/home/teholapp/Qt/Tools/b2qt/adb -s 10.9.21.97:5555 shell mkdir -p /home/teholapp/Qt/5.7/Boot2Qt/raspberrypi3/toolchain/sysroots/cortexa7hf-vfp-vfpv4-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/usr/share/examples/quickcontrols2/chattutorial/chapter5-styling'.