EDIT: Perfect symmetries, for example, feature-less spheres, or the analogues of platonic solids would break this. If the embedded space has no geometric symmetries you would be in business.
Re-aligning, essentially would be akin to solving a graph-isomorphism problem.
Lie algebraic formulation would make it less generic than an arbitrary graph-isomorphism problem. Essentially reduce it to a high dimensional procrustes problem. Generic graph isomorphism can be quite a challenge.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procrustes_analysis
EDIT: Sinkhorn balancing over a set of points (say a d-dimensional tetrahedron, essentially a simplex) furthest from each other might be a good first cut to try. You might have already done so, I haven't read your paper yet.