You’d better use woocommerce_email_order_items_args
filter.
It can be done this way:
function add_product_thumbnail_to_wc_emails( $args ) {
$args['show_image'] = true;
$args['image_size'] = array( 100, 100 );
return $args;
}
add_filter( 'woocommerce_email_order_items_args', 'add_product_thumbnail_to_wc_emails' );
The code has to be placed to functions.php