a little addition to my ealier suggestion: If you use related articles and my 'solution'
the option will appear below the related articles.
To avoid that, I put the options in the product-description like this:
If you do not use the free plugin 'load module in article' or something simular, install it.
you will now be able to load any (hikashop)module, including images etc. into your product description.
Easy if you got the same options for a lot of products.
There will be a few downsides compared to Hikashop options, but I like this better than
the standard product-options,
In my case I use 4 kinds of options per article.
To save space I included the 4 option-modules in 1 custum HTML module (standard Joomla) in an accordion-styled plugin (plant accordion, also free)
To load my 4 custom options in a productdescription is to add this code: {module [169]} **EDIT: 169 is the number of my custum html-module.**
Ordering will not be as sophisticated as with Hikashop's product options. But it certainly will show the options images.