There is a nice survey by Tangelder/Veltkamp: http://www.cs.sfu.ca/CourseCentral/820/li/material/source/papers/Survey-3D-shape-retrieval-08.pdf
There is also an older one by Zhang/Fonseca/Ferreira: http://web.ist.utl.pt/~alfredo.ferreira/publications/DecorAR-Surveyon3DShapedescriptors.pdf
If you're interested in more recent research the proceedings of the 3DOR (Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval) might be a good starting point: http://diglib.eg.org/handle/10.2312/307