The principal resonance of bending–torsion coupling of a compressor blade with an assembled clearance and a cubic structural nonlinearity, subjected to the lateral displacement excitation of rotor shaft and aerodynamic loads, is analyzed to explore the topology transformation of amplitude–frequency response along with the changes of the physical parameters. The bifurcation equation of the first-order principal resonance response is derived from using the averaging method. The transition set and the bifurcation figures of the response solution are obtained by the singularity theory. The effects of the main physical parameters of the system on the topology transformation of amplitude–frequency response are discussed.